How can I get an ImageIcon back from a JToggleButton...

Question

When I create a JToggleButton I have to create an ImageIcon and pass it to the constructor.
e.g. JToggleButton toggleButtonA = new JToggleButton( new ImageIcon( "images/A.gif" ) );
But when I want to get that ImageIcon back, all I can find in the documentation is getIcon(), which is much more limited in what I can do with it.
How can I get my ImageIcon back?
I've seen some people just paint the button on a new ImageIcon, but then it's not the same image, it has the button look around the original icon, not to mention since it's a toggle button you actually get the selectedIcon() instead.
Please help. Thanks.

Answer 1

All you basically have to do is use getIcon() and cast it to an ImageIcon... here's an example:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class ImageIconGrab {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("ImageIcon Grabber");
JToggleButton jtb = new JToggleButton(new ImageIcon("pregoico.gif"));
ImageIcon ii = (ImageIcon) jtb.getIcon();
JToggleButton jtb2 = new JToggleButton(ii);
frame.getContentPane().add(jtb, BorderLayout.NORTH);
frame.getContentPane().add(jtb2, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);