resizing an image using swing

[jeevansai jinne]

I was designing a gui but i was getting error:sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage cannot be cast to javax.swing.Icon when resizing i tried many methods on internet but none worked . Can someone give an example code on how to solve the problem

[K. Tsang]

Are you resizing an icon or the actual image?

Have a look at here for example.

Haven't tried that code on that page but looks workable.

[jeevansai jinne]

but what is the difference between icon and image , i am resizing png image file by getting image out of ImageIcon . I tried method given in above link even though the code was different same error occurs.Basically i want to resize an image by using only swing without awt methods.

[K. Tsang]

jeevansai jinne wrote:but what is the difference between icon and image

Ah the ImageIcon "can be" created using an Image.

ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("myfile.png"); // the straightforward way
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(ImageIO.read(new File("myfile.png")));  //ImageIO.read returns a BufferedImage which is a Image