Having problem loading the gif from a jar for the frame.

Question

I got the gif showing up for the Toolbar fine but now trying to get the Frame icon from the same jar and having the problem.
I have the following method in the MainFrame.
* Load an ImageIcon, either from inside the jar file (during the normal execution)
* or from the source path (during the development without jar file).
public static synchronized ImageIcon LoadImageIcon(String name) {   
try {
URL url = ClassLoader.getSystemResource(name);
if(url!=null) {
return new ImageIcon(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(url));
} else {  
return new ImageIcon(name);
} catch(Exception e) {
return null;
I gave the following in the constructor of the same class i.e the MainFrame which is extending the JFrame
this.setIconImage(LoadImageIcon("frameicon.gif").getImage());
I am not getting the Icon. I did check the name of icon and I don't know what else to check.
Any suggesions or what am I missing here? Thanks.

Answer 1

I have these 2 statements one below the other and
JButton btnNew = new JButton(MainFrame.LoadImageIcon("new.gif"));
JButton btnOpenProject = new JButton(MainFrame.LoadImageIcon("open.gif"));
for the above it gets the icon and for the below it doesn't from the jar. Why is it so? I don't understand. help me thru this. I am not getting any icon except for the new.gif. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks.