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Re: icon change

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On Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:23:49 PM UTC-6, Steve W. Jackson wrote:
> In article <3cfa1dd3-163c-479a-ad66-99a49664f4c5@googlegroups.com>,
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>  bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> wrote:
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> > On Thursday, January 17, 2013 1:32:12 PM UTC-6, FredK wrote:
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> > > On Thursday, January 17, 2013 11:21:41 AM UTC-8, bob smith wrote:
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> > > > I have a Swing app, and I want to change the icon that shows in the 
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> > > > bottom bar when it runs. Anyone know how to do that? Right now, it's a 
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> > > > coffee cup.
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> > > frame.setIconImage(image);
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> > Thanks.
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> > That seems to work on Windows, but not on Mac.
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> That's because the Windows task bar automatically picks up the frame's 
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> icon, whereas the Mac OS X environment uses a totally different 
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> technique.  It's picking up the icon of the application actually 
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> running, which is Java itself.  To change that, you'll have to learn how 
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> to "bundle" a Mac app.
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> -- 
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> Steve W. Jackson
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> Montgomery, Alabama



Yeah, I figured out how to bundle a Mac app.

I guess I was hoping though to have a single JAR file that would be icon-correct on Windows and Mac.

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icon change bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-01-17 11:21 -0800
  Re: icon change FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2013-01-17 11:32 -0800
    Re: icon change bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-01-17 13:08 -0800
      Re: icon change "Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@knology.net> - 2013-01-17 15:23 -0600
        Re: icon change bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-01-17 14:42 -0800
          Re: icon change FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 08:30 -0800
  Re: icon change Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-01-17 14:18 -0800

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