Desktop Icon

[Fondor]

Is there any way, in your code, to make it so that, when compiled, the application has a different icon? I know that you can make a shortcut and change your icon, and I know how to change the icon by the title when the application is open, but how do you change the desktop icon from the coffee mug?

[mrmatt1111]

Create a shortcut to your Jar and give that shortcut an icon.

[iluxa]

try this: Launch4j - Cross-platform Java executable wrapper, it's way cool

[Eranga]

Create a shortcut to your Jar and give that shortcut an icon.

That would be the most suitable thing. Just like you can't added a specialized icon for a particular MSWord document.

You can do one things, if you really want to a different icon for JAR files. Change icon features in your system. Like in XP, Control Panel -> Folder Options -> Select "JAR" -> Advanced, and then click Change Icon and assign yours.

[Eranga]

try this: Launch4j - Cross-platform Java executable wrapper, it's way cool

Creating EXEs for your application, limit to windows only. You cannot use it in UNIX. Why we really do that, since Java is platform independent.

[iluxa]

Creating EXEs for your application, limit to windows only. You cannot use it in UNIX.

Like that's a bad thing...

[Eranga]

For me it is... :p But sometime I've to do that in business.