Image won't display in JLabel

Question

I\'ve gone through every post I could find on this site and the Java tutorials and I still can\'t figure out why my code isn\'t working. Even when I copy/paste other peoples\'

Answer 1

Try this way:-

ImageIcon icon = createImageIcon("bg.png", "image description");

protected ImageIcon createImageIcon(String path, String description) {
    java.net.URL imgURL = getClass().getResource(path);

    if (imgURL != null) {
        return new ImageIcon(imgURL, description);
    } else {
        System.err.println("Couldn't find file:" +path);
        return null;
    }
}