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Here's another JList example, this time sharing some JList code I use to render images and text in JList cells.

Before going on, if you just want to display a set of images in a JList, all you have to do is create your images as an array Icons, and then add this array to your JList, and you're done. The JList is smart enough to render a Java Icon as an image, so in the most simple case, that's all you have to do.

However, in my case, because I want to render an image and text in each cell, I need to do a little more work. If you want to do something like this, read on.

With custom icon

It's important to note that you can also customize the icon that is displayed when using a JOptionPane showMessageDialog. In the following example, I specify that I want to display my own PNG image by creating an ImageIcon as an additional argument to the showMessageDialog method:

Just digging around through an old Java/Swing application again, and I found this method that takes a snapshot of the current screen, and returns that screen shot as an BufferedImage.

Here is some sample Java source code that shows a simple technique to display a GIF, JPG, or PNG image using a Java ImageIcon and JLabel.