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Ted Byers wrote:

> 
> "Gillmer J. Derge (TeamB)" <spam@gillmerderge.com> wrote in message
> news:405b28d5$3@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> Ted Byers wrote:
>> > But here is another question about the use of JLabel within the
> designer.
>> > Is it possible to get it to load an image at design time?  Without that
>> > capability, it is rather hard to visually place my invisible JLabels.
>>
>> The easiest way is to include the image file in your project.  It needs
>> to be an explicit node in the project, not automatically discovered as
>> part of the source tree.  For example,
>>
>> 1. Project | Add Files / Packages / Classes...
>> 2. Browse to the file
>>
Short way around this:

(1) Put the images in your /src directory of your project. You can make an
images folder if you wish.
  for Instance:
     /jbprojects
        /myproject
           /src/
             /com
              /yourcompany
                  /images
                    image files
                  /imageclass
                    ImageDisplay.java

 Now in your jbCode do the following
        
 public class ImageDisplay extends JFrame {
   JLabel imageLabel= new JLabel();
   ImageIcon imgForLabel;

   public ImageDisplay() {
   }

  public void jbInit() throws Exception {
    imgforLabel= new
ImageIcon(this.getClass().getResource("../images/TheImage.jpg"));
   //other code

 }

}

Now switch to the designer. You should see the imgForLabel listed for
setIcon. If you don't compile, and retry to set the Icon for the Label. It
should be there now (it will copy the images file to the classes folder on
compile).