Retrieve File Thumbnail

[DuvanSlabbert]

I'm trying to get the thumbnail of a Directory, whether it is a file or a folder.

I have this code and works 100%

ImageIcon img=(ImageIcon)FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getSystemIcon(new File(fileName));

only problem is it retrieves a 16X16 icon and when I need to draw this image on a bigger scale its all pixelated and look like the the 60's....

so i was just wondering if there is a better way of retrieving the icon of a file and that's a bit bigger than 16X16

[DuvanSlabbert]

ok, been searching high and low... even try to search for extracting icon from file in java and it seems like this is a dead subject... like not allot of ppl have tried this and seems to get it in working order.... so now I think the next question would be, how does the FileSystemView even get the file icon that is 16X16, maybe if we can figure that out we would be able to improve on that to get a bigger icon...

[DuvanSlabbert]

I have been battling with this subject and reading up on allot of stuff... seems like its just not possible yet with Java.

so for now my answer would be to stay at

Image icn=((ImageIcon)FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getSystemIcon(new File(fileName))).getImage();
						 icn = icn.getScaledInstance(32,32,Image.SCALE_SMOOTH);

If you guys can get a better way on this matter, please let me know.