ImageIcon retrieving file name once created

Question

I have created an image icon and at some later point would like to retrieve the name of the file that created the icon. Is that possible? I have not found a method to do this.
Thanks.
-Jim

Answer 1

To my knowledge, there is no built-in way.
You could create a Map of icon information, that stores the icon as the key and the filename as the value for later retrieval. Something like:
private Map iconInfo = new HashMap();
private ImageIcon image1;
// then, when you go to load the images...
public void loadImages()
  String pathname1 = "./someDir/someOtherDir/someImage.gif";
  // perhaps call some other method to fetch an image
  image1 = loadImage(pathname1);
  iconInfo.put(image1, pathname1);
// at some later point ...
public void doSomething()
  String filename1 = (String) iconInfo.get(image1);
}