jtoolbar

I am trying to add a icon to a toolbar but what is the best place to put it in? My desktop or should I make a new file in the project file or add all the pictures in because it is not showing and this is my code: JToolBar toolBar = new JToolBar(); String[] iconFiles = {"pen-icon","",""}; String[] buttonLabels = {"New","Open","Save"}; icon = new ImageIcon[iconFiles.length]; Obutton = new JButton[buttonLabels.length]; for (int i = 0; i < buttonLabels.length; ++i) { icon[i] = new ImageIcon(iconFiles[i]); Obutton[i] = new JButton(icon[i]); Obutton[i].setToolTipText(buttonLabels[i]); if (i == 3)

Why JMenuBar is not place in the content pane?is there any reason or effects when make a java gui program especially when using jframe? Thanks As stated in Using Top-Level Containers article, the manu bar is managed by the Root Pane: Each top-level container relies on a reclusive intermediate container called the root pane. The root pane manages the content pane and the menu bar, along with a couple of other containers. You generally don't need to know about root panes to use Swing components. However, if you ever need to intercept mouse clicks or paint over multiple components, you should get

I'm fairly new to Java Swing and I'm running into a few problems. As a side question, when making a fairly large Java Swing Application, what is the best way to split up code? In my case I want to have an application that has a layout just as Microsoft Word where there is a JToolBar filled with buttons and a main JPanel where changes are made based on the buttons pressed in the Tool Bar. So as shown in the code below, I have a JFrame and I call the MainPanel class in order to create a panel and add a ToolBar with a button. When the button is pressed it adds a button to the panel. The problem

I use JToolbarButton button, I want to make it be "pressed" when I click on it, just like JButton works.How can I do this? Please help!Thanks. Andrew Thompson As mentioned in Costis' reply, you are probably after a JToggleButton . It might also be necessary to suppress the painting of the border, as in the 2nd tool bar in this example. import java.awt.*; import java.awt.image.*; import javax.swing.*; class ToggleBar { public static JToggleButton getButton( Image selected, Image unselected, boolean decorated) { JToggleButton b = new JToggleButton(); b.setSelectedIcon(new ImageIcon(selected)); b