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Allie Marie
Allie Marie

Reputation: 27

Change ImageView image in code using JavaFX Scene Builder

I'm trying to change the image in an ImageView component on button click. I need it to be a local image. I keep getting a path error and I can't use an ImageIcon and convert it to an Image. Is there not a simple way to do this?

package tictactoesimulator_alliebeckman;

import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.fxml.FXML;
import javafx.fxml.Initializable;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;

/**
 *
 * @author Allie
 */
public class FXMLDocumentController implements Initializable {

    // my components        
    @FXML
    public Label lblWinLose;
    @FXML
    public Button btnNewGame;
    @FXML
    public ImageView ivOne;

    // Event handle for button click  
    @FXML
    public void handleButtonAction(ActionEvent event) {

        // here is where I'm having the issue I have the image file in my src folder
        // I've tried using a ImageIcon and it wont convert to an Image?
        // All I need is the image to change to the local image on button click

        lblWinLose.setText("Clicked");
        Image image = new Image("o.png");
        ivOne = new ImageView(image);
    }

    @Override
    public void initialize(URL url, ResourceBundle rb) {

    }
}

The project layout can be seen in this Eclipse screenshot:

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 5740

Answers (1)

James_D
James_D

Reputation: 209724

From the screenshot in your question, the image is in the same package as the FXMLDocumentController class.

The Image constructor you are using is expecting the string version of a URL of the image: the best way to get such a URL is to use getClass().getResource(...) (as this will work whether you are loading from the file system or from a jar file). getClass().getResource(...) will resolve relative to the current class (or relative to the classpath if you begin the resource name with a leading /):

Image image = new Image(getClass().getResource("o.png").toExternalForm());

and then instead of creating a new ImageView you should do

ivOne.setImage(image);

Upvotes: 4

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