Java - setting the exported jar files icon

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I'm not sure if i need code for this but i know how to set the icon of the app it simply

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this.setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(Skin_Stealer_Pro.class.getResource("/me/codplaymakers/com/icon.PNG")));

But I wanna now how to set the exported jar files icon

for example if i just export the file to my desktop the icon will be a coffee cup with some sort of document thingy behind it, I wanna do like a product called "Minecraft" has done and put a icon for the application.

dose anyone now how to do this?
because the web all takes me to the code i just posted which I don't need, like in C# you can just set the icon in the properties panel but how I do this in java?

Posted 30-Jul-13 22:54pm

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Richard MacCutchan 31-Jul-13 8:20am

As far as I am aware jar files do not have a resource section that Windows Explorer can query for icons. You have to do it manually.

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TorstenH. · Answer 1 · 2013-07-31T04:55:00

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Check This:

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials.html[^]

Pretty good stuff. Bookmark it please.

Posted 31-Jul-13 4:55am

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Updated 31-Jul-13 4:56am

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