使用JFrame在Java中加载图像

Question

so i have a very basic java application, there is a panel and inside that is a button. When a user clicks the button, i want a picture to come up in another panel in the same form.

I searched up ways to load images from web/from my folder and this is the code i've come up with:-

private void buttonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt)

{                                       
    ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("URL-of-the-image");
    panel2.setIcon(icon);

}    

~~what panel 2 looks like~~

where am i going wrong? it says that the method "setIcon()" is causing a problem but i don't know any other method to do this job. Please Guide!

Answer 1

If panel2 is a JPanel , it doesn't have a setIcon method.

Use a JLabel instead , it has such a method.