Question

Given this code,

tableButton = new JButton(new ImageIcon("80F_FG2015.GIF"));

how would I get that String to be returned to me so I can compare it to another String?

Answer 1

Well one way to solve your problem is creating

tableButton = new JButton(new ImageIcon("80F_FG2015.GIF", "80F_FG2015.GIF"));

The second argument is the description. And ImageIcon.toString() method returns the description. So you can very well compare this description with the description from another image icon

You can get back the description as follows:

System.out.println(((ImageIcon)tableButton.getIcon()).getDescription()); 
//or
System.out.println(((ImageIcon)tableButton.getIcon()).toString());