How can I convert an Icon to an Image
Solution 1
Just found a code snippet which might help if you want to wrap those misbehaving LAF provided icons more often:
/**
* Some ui-icons misbehave in that they unconditionally class-cast to the
* component type they are mostly painted on. Consequently they blow up if
* we are trying to paint them anywhere else (f.i. in a renderer).
*
* This Icon is an adaption of a cool trick by Darryl Burke/Rob Camick found at
* http://tips4java.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/icon-table-cell-renderer/#comment-120
*
* The base idea is to instantiate a component of the type expected by the icon,
* let it paint into the graphics of a bufferedImage and create an ImageIcon from it.
* In subsequent calls the ImageIcon is used.
*
*/
public static class SafeIcon implements Icon {
private Icon wrappee;
private Icon standIn;
public SafeIcon(Icon wrappee) {
this.wrappee = wrappee;
}
@Override
public int getIconHeight() {
return wrappee.getIconHeight();
}
@Override
public int getIconWidth() {
return wrappee.getIconWidth();
}
@Override
public void paintIcon(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y) {
if (standIn == this) {
paintFallback(c, g, x, y);
} else if (standIn != null) {
standIn.paintIcon(c, g, x, y);
} else {
try {
wrappee.paintIcon(c, g, x, y);
} catch (ClassCastException e) {
createStandIn(e, x, y);
standIn.paintIcon(c, g, x, y);
}
}
}
/**
* @param e
*/
private void createStandIn(ClassCastException e, int x, int y) {
try {
Class<?> clazz = getClass(e);
JComponent standInComponent = getSubstitute(clazz);
standIn = createImageIcon(standInComponent, x, y);
} catch (Exception e1) {
// something went wrong - fallback to this painting
standIn = this;
}
}
private Icon createImageIcon(JComponent standInComponent, int x, int y) {
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(getIconWidth(),
getIconHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics g = image.createGraphics();
try {
wrappee.paintIcon(standInComponent, g, 0, 0);
return new ImageIcon(image);
} finally {
g.dispose();
}
}
/**
* @param clazz
* @throws IllegalAccessException
*/
private JComponent getSubstitute(Class<?> clazz) throws IllegalAccessException {
JComponent standInComponent;
try {
standInComponent = (JComponent) clazz.newInstance();
} catch (InstantiationException e) {
standInComponent = new AbstractButton() {
};
((AbstractButton) standInComponent).setModel(new DefaultButtonModel());
}
return standInComponent;
}
private Class<?> getClass(ClassCastException e) throws ClassNotFoundException {
String className = e.getMessage();
className = className.substring(className.lastIndexOf(" ") + 1);
return Class.forName(className);
}
private void paintFallback(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y) {
g.drawRect(x, y, getIconWidth(), getIconHeight());
g.drawLine(x, y, x + getIconWidth(), y + getIconHeight());
g.drawLine(x + getIconWidth(), y, x, y + getIconHeight());
}
}
To use in your snippet, simply pass in an arbitrary component:
icon = new SafeIcon(icon);
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(icon.getIconWidth(), icon.getIconHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
icon.paintIcon(new JPanel(), image.getGraphics(), 0, 0);
Solution 2
Try this :
static Image iconToImage(Icon icon) {
if (icon instanceof ImageIcon) {
return ((ImageIcon)icon).getImage();
}
else {
int w = icon.getIconWidth();
int h = icon.getIconHeight();
GraphicsEnvironment ge =
GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
GraphicsDevice gd = ge.getDefaultScreenDevice();
GraphicsConfiguration gc = gd.getDefaultConfiguration();
BufferedImage image = gc.createCompatibleImage(w, h);
Graphics2D g = image.createGraphics();
icon.paintIcon(null, g, 0, 0);
g.dispose();
return image;
}
}
A complete example where we take a laf-provided icon, convert it to an Image and use it for on the Windows System Tray.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class SysTrayDemo {
protected static TrayIcon trayIcon;
private static PopupMenu createTrayMenu() {
ActionListener exitListener = new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
System.out.println("Bye from the tray");
System.exit(0);
}
};
ActionListener executeListener = new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog
(null, "Popup from the action on the systray!",
"User action", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
trayIcon.displayMessage
("Done", "You can do it again if you want!",
TrayIcon.MessageType.INFO);
}
};
PopupMenu menu = new PopupMenu();
MenuItem execItem = new MenuItem("Action...");
execItem.addActionListener(executeListener);
menu.add(execItem);
MenuItem exitItem = new MenuItem("Exit");
exitItem.addActionListener(exitListener);
menu.add(exitItem);
return menu;
}
/**
* using a built-in icon
* we need to convert the icon to an Image
*/
private static TrayIcon createTrayIconFromBuiltInIcon() {
Icon icon = UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.warningIcon");
PopupMenu popup = createTrayMenu();
Image image = iconToImage(icon);
TrayIcon ti = new TrayIcon(image, "Java System Tray Demo", popup);
ti.setImageAutoSize(true);
return ti;
}
static Image iconToImage(Icon icon) {
if (icon instanceof ImageIcon) {
return ((ImageIcon)icon).getImage();
} else {
int w = icon.getIconWidth();
int h = icon.getIconHeight();
GraphicsEnvironment ge =
GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
GraphicsDevice gd = ge.getDefaultScreenDevice();
GraphicsConfiguration gc = gd.getDefaultConfiguration();
BufferedImage image = gc.createCompatibleImage(w, h);
Graphics2D g = image.createGraphics();
icon.paintIcon(null, g, 0, 0);
g.dispose();
return image;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
if (!SystemTray.isSupported()) {
System.out.println
("System tray not supported on this platform");
System.exit(1);
}
try {
SystemTray sysTray = SystemTray.getSystemTray();
trayIcon = createTrayIconFromBuiltInIcon();
sysTray.add(trayIcon);
trayIcon.displayMessage("Ready",
"Tray icon started and tready", TrayIcon.MessageType.INFO);
}
catch (AWTException e) {
System.out.println("Unable to add icon to the system tray");
System.exit(1);
}
}
}
Solution 3
Try this:
icon.paintIcon(new JCheckBox(), image.getGraphics(), 0, 0);
I can't exactly explain why it needs a JCheckBox
though. Perhaps it varies for the icon? The NullPointerException
was from this line in MetalIconFactory
for "CheckBox.icon"
:
ButtonModel model = ((JCheckBox)c).getModel();
3rgo
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Updated on April 21, 2020Comments
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3rgo about 4 years
I'm trying to convert an Icon (
javax.swing.Icon
) to an Image (java.awt.Image
) using this code:private Image iconToImage(Icon icon) { if(icon instanceof ImageIcon) { return ((ImageIcon) icon).getImage(); } else { BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(icon.getIconWidth(), icon.getIconHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); icon.paintIcon(null, image.getGraphics(), 0, 0); return image; } }
The thing is, the
paintIcon
function throws aNullPointerException
on theimage.getGraphics()
.For the record, the
icon
value is the defaultCheckBox
icon (obtained viaUIManager.getIcon("CheckBox.icon")
)Here are the details of the exception thrown :
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsIconFactory$CheckBoxIcon.paintIcon(WindowsIconFactory.java:306) at utils.WarningRenderer.iconToImage(WarningRenderer.java:50) at utils.WarningRenderer.<init>(WarningRenderer.java:38) at deliveryexpress.DeliveryExpressView.setWarnings(DeliveryExpressView.java:278) at deliveryexpress.DeliveryExpressView.updateLists(DeliveryExpressView.java:218) at deliveryexpress.DeliveryExpressView.access$1100(DeliveryExpressView.java:47) at deliveryexpress.DeliveryExpressView$5.addCheck(DeliveryExpressView.java:183) at org.japura.gui.model.DefaultListCheckModel.fireCheckListModelListeners(Unknown Source) at org.japura.gui.model.DefaultListCheckModel.fireAddCheckListModelListeners(Unknown Source) at org.japura.gui.model.DefaultListCheckModel.addCheck(Unknown Source) at org.japura.gui.CheckList$1.mouseClicked(Unknown Source) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseClicked(AWTEventMulticaster.java:253) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6292) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6054) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4652) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4482) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4577) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4247) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2478) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4482) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:644) at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:85) at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:603) at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:601) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:98) at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:617) at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:615) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:614) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
If you need more details, just tell me, I'll edit my post to add them.
Thanks!