JList with JLabels

Question

I'm a final year university student working on a major project for my degree and I'm really struggling with the GUI for the application. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me out here.
I'm trying to make a JList of JLabels. I don't know whether this is possible but heres the jist of my code :
Vector listContents = new Vector();
JList list = new JList(listContents);
list.setSelectionMode(ListSelectionModel.SINGLE_SELECTION);
JScrollPane listScrollPane = new JScrollPane(list);
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(fyp.MainFrame.class.getResource("image.png"));
ImageIcon icon2 = new ImageIcon(fyp.MainFrame.class.getResource("image.png"));
JLabel lab = new JLabel("Test");
lab.setIcon(icon);
JLabel lab2 = new JLabel("Test 2");
lab2.setIcon(icon2);
listContents.add(lab);
listContents.add(lab2);If I use strings instead of labels it works fine. However, I want to have icons next to each string in the list.
Can anyone help with this? If this won't work at all, is there another way I should make a list of strings with an icon to the left of each entry?

Answer 1

I'm afraid I can't seem to use this information to
help me, the examples go into too much detail with
custom data models and whatever which really isn't
what I want to do.That may not be what you want to do, but it's what you have to do.
I simply want to display an icon next to the string of
the list entry.
I'd be really greatful if you guys could give me a
straightforward way of doing this - I'm terrible with
Swing and its pretty difficult for me to understand
these previous examples :(Those examples ARE the straightforward way of doing it. Go to the API documentation for JList and hit the page-down key three times. There's the example you need. It's got setIcon() in it, what else do you need?