Question

for a simple Java Desktop Application I added a JFrame Form with the assistant of the NetBeans IDE. For this frame I want to change the icon in the title bar.
I tried to do so with the following code at the very end of the constructor in the generated View class:

ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon(iconUrl);
    this.getFrame().setIconImage(ii.getImage());

The String iconUrl is definitely correct, the object ii seems to be alright as far as I can judge from the variables overview in the debugger perspective.
However, the icon in the title bar does not change, it’s still the default java icon.

Why?

Answer 1

You can try this:

Image i = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("/path/to/image"));
setIconImage(i);

Note that here / would represent your src directory