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How to make an icon URL based, Java

I've made an Java app that uses URL based images instead of file based images. My question is, is there a way to get a URL image into an icon image?

frame.setIconImage(new ImageIcon("icon.png").getImage());

That's how i would usually do an icon image but i tried:

frame.setIconImage(new ImageIcon("i.imgur.com/<whatever>").getImage());

and it didn't seem to work, so is there a way to to it or is there atleast a way to get rid of the icon altogether without using a blank texture file?

Solution 
  • URL url = new URL("http://some url/mypic.jpg");
Image image = ImageIO.read(url);

f.setIconImage(new ImageIcon(image).getImage());