JLabel Icon Updates

Question

I am running a MYSQL query and assigning the values to Jlabels. Like this:
jLabel2.setText ( nameVal );I want to be able to assign the icons of the jLabels as well. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Same result. Here is the whole thing right from the tutorials:
//package components;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
* LabelDemo.java needs one other file:
*   images/middle.gif
public class LabelDemo extends JPanel {
    public LabelDemo() {
        super(new GridLayout(3,1));  //3 rows, 1 column
        JLabel label1, label2, label3;
        ImageIcon icon = createImageIcon("http://duke.kenai.com/iconSized/duke4.gif",
                                         "a pretty but meaningless splat");
        //Create the first label.
        label1 = new JLabel("Image and Text",
                            icon,
                            JLabel.CENTER);
        //Set the position of its text, relative to its icon:
        label1.setVerticalTextPosition(JLabel.BOTTOM);
        label1.setHorizontalTextPosition(JLabel.CENTER);
        //Create the other labels.
        label2 = new JLabel("Text-Only Label");
        label3 = new JLabel(icon);
        //Create tool tips, for the heck of it.
        label1.setToolTipText("A label containing both image and text");
        label2.setToolTipText("A label containing only text");
        label3.setToolTipText("A label containing only an image");
        //Add the labels.
        add(label1);
        add(label2);
        add(label3);
    /** Returns an ImageIcon, or null if the path was invalid. */
    protected static ImageIcon createImageIcon(String URL,
                                               String description) {
        java.net.URL imgURL = LabelDemo.class.getResource(URL);
        if (imgURL != null) {
            return new ImageIcon(imgURL, description);
        } else {
            System.err.println("Couldn't find file: " + URL);
            return null;
     * Create the GUI and show it.  For thread safety,
     * this method should be invoked from the
     * event dispatch thread.
    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        //Create and set up the window.
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("LabelDemo");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        //Add content to the window.
        frame.add(new LabelDemo());
        //Display the window.
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Schedule a job for the event dispatch thread:
        //creating and showing this application's GUI.
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
          //Turn off metal's use of bold fonts
             UIManager.put("swing.boldMetal", Boolean.FALSE);
          createAndShowGUI();
}