Set Icon Image in Java

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I have been searching everywhere on how to set the icon image in Java  and it always ends up not working or it gives me errors  Here  in my main method is where I put the code   public static void main String   args        Game game   new Game            This right here       game frame setIconImage new ImageIcon   Icon png   getImage          game frame setResizable false       game frame setTitle title       game frame add game       game frame pack        game frame setDefaultCloseOperation JFrame EXIT ON CLOSE       game frame setLocationRelativeTo null       game frame setVisible true        My path for the image is   PROJECT  res Image png  and I just use  Image png to go ahead and access my res folder  as I have done in other parts of my project  I have even converted it into an icon file  and tried that  but all it decides is to use the default Java icon

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Use Default toolkit for this  frame setIconImage Toolkit getDefaultToolkit   getImage  Icon png

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Your problem is often due to looking in the wrong place for the image  or if your classes and images are in a jar file  then looking for files where files don t exist  I suggest that you use resources to get rid of the second problem   e g       the path must be relative to your  class  files String imagePath    res Image png   InputStream imgStream   Game class getResourceAsStream imagePath    BufferedImage myImg   ImageIO read imgStream      ImageIcon icon   new ImageIcon myImg       use icon here game frame setIconImage myImg

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I use this   import javax imageio ImageIO  import java awt    import java awt image BufferedImage  import java io IOException  import java io InputStream   public class IconImageUtilities       public static void setIconImage Window window                try                       InputStream imageInputStream   window getClass   getResourceAsStream   Icon png                BufferedImage bufferedImage   ImageIO read imageInputStream               window setIconImage bufferedImage             catch  IOException exception                        exception printStackTrace                        Just place your image called Icon png in the resources folder and call the above method with itself as parameter inside a class extending a class from the Window family such as JFrame or JDialog   IconImageUtilities setIconImage this

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