Undocumented Secrets of MATLAB-Java Programming

Undocumented Secrets of MATLAB

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-Java Programming228

create icons from the latter to keep a consistent look-and-feel with the rest of MATLAB (we

could just as easily use our own external icon les):

% External icon file example

jSave.setIcon(javax.swing.ImageIcon('C:\Yair\save.gif'));

% JAR resource example

jarFile = fullfile(matlabroot,'/java/jar/mwt.jar');

iconsFolder = '/com/mathworks/mwt/resources/';

iconURI = ['jar:file:/' jarFile '!' iconsFolder 'save.gif'];

iconURI = java.net.URL(iconURI); % not necessary for external files

jSave.setIcon(javax.swing.ImageIcon(iconURI));

Note that setting a menu item’s icon automatically re-aligns all other ...