Display a file's icon image in an ImageView in JavaFX

Question

I have a JavaFX application which permits the user to select a file. The file could be an application.

I want to display the file's icon in an JavaFX ImageView .

Is there a cross-platform solution to get such icon image and display it in an ImageView ?

Answer 1

You can get the default system icon for a file by using FileSystemView :

ImageIcon icon = (ImageIcon) FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getSystemIcon(file);
java.awt.Image image = icon.getImage();

You can later use SwingFXUtils to convert it to FX Image and set it to an ImageView.

Also go through JavaFX file listview with icon and file name .