Why am i getting the same icon ...?

Question

Hi
i have the following code
// get selected file
file = fileChooser.getSelectedFile();
//get Icon for the selected file
Icon icon = fileChooser.getIcon(file);
//set Icon
L_Icon.setIcon(icon);but the prob is i am getting the same icon for all the file type(for html, Doc,...),
how can we get the icon accociated to file
Regards
Satinderjit

Answer 1

YOU have to define what images are for what files in a FileView derived class.
import java.io.File;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.filechooser.*;
public class ImageFileView extends FileView {
    ImageIcon jpgIcon = new ImageIcon("images/jpgIcon.gif");
    ImageIcon gifIcon = new ImageIcon("images/gifIcon.gif");
    ImageIcon tiffIcon = new ImageIcon("images/tiffIcon.gif");
    public String getName(File f) {
        return null; // let the L&F FileView figure this out
    public String getDescription(File f) {
        return null; // let the L&F FileView figure this out
    public Boolean isTraversable(File f) {
        return null; // let the L&F FileView figure this out
    public String getTypeDescription(File f) {
        String extension = Utils.getExtension(f);
        String type = null;
        if (extension != null) {
            if (extension.equals(Utils.jpeg) ||
                extension.equals(Utils.jpg)) {
                type = "JPEG Image";
            } else if (extension.equals(Utils.gif)){
                type = "GIF Image";
            } else if (extension.equals(Utils.tiff) ||
                       extension.equals(Utils.tif)) {
                type = "TIFF Image";
        return type;
    public Icon getIcon(File f) {
        String extension = Utils.getExtension(f);
        Icon icon = null;
        if (extension != null) {
            if (extension.equals(Utils.jpeg) ||
                extension.equals(Utils.jpg)) {
                icon = jpgIcon;
            } else if (extension.equals(Utils.gif)) {
                icon = gifIcon;
            } else if (extension.equals(Utils.tiff) ||
                       extension.equals(Utils.tif)) {
                icon = tiffIcon;
        return icon;
}