JOptionPane Icons

Hello, all!
JOptionPane icons are usually available by invoking
UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.errorIcon");
UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.informationIcon");
UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.questionIcon");
UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.warningIcon");This all works well, except for native GTK Look & Feel, where nulls are returned (all is ok with synthetic GTK Look & Feel). How can I fix the problem?

You are using OK_OPTION when you should be using a message type:
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(MainFrame.getInstance(), message,
windowTitle, JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
there are
ERROR_MESSAGE, INFORMATION_MESSAGE, WARNING_MESSAGE, QUESTION_MESSAGE, or PLAIN_MESSAGE

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in this simple code
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import java.awt.event.WindowListener;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
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import javax.swing.JFrame;
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For instance:
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but the icon of JOptionPane is always (X) can i change it to (!) or something else . . . looks like error.
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OK_OPTION is not used this way but rather to check the return value of one of the other JOptionPane objects, the showConfirmDialog. The JOptionPane API will tell you what you need to know. For instance:
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
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