🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi there,

I'm working on a project where I'm making use of an ImageIcon object.  For
its contructor it takes a URL. I have to surround the instance of the
ImageIcon with a try catch block to catch any MalformedURLException.  That's
fine.  But, if syntactically the URL is correct, it isn't necessarily
pointing to an actual resource on the net, and it won't throw any exception
in this case!

If I'm trying to pass to an ImageIcon a URL to a *.gif file somewhere on the
net, and I get the path wrong, how do I programmatically determine that?

Alan

JLabel label = new JLabel();
public void setLabelIcon(Object newValue)
{
  try
  {
     label.setIcon(new ImageIcon(new URL((String)newValue)));
     ...
  }catch(Exception e)
  {
           JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The URL provided is
malformed!\nBe sure it begins with \"http://\"", "Image URL",
JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
  }
   ...
}