How to get the icon of another application?

java, windows

Solution

Do you have to get the icon associated to the exe file of the application ? If so it is possible in java, take a look at this tutorial, that explain several ways of extracting app icon from an executable binary file from a Java application.

Take a look at this code :

String s = "c:/windows/regedit.exe";
File file = new File(s);

// Get metadata and create an icon
sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder sf =
        sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.getShellFolder(file);
Icon icon = new ImageIcon(sf.getIcon(true));

Problem

So in this application I'm making, the user clicks on a button, and that button launches a program. This button will have the title of the application and the icon. I just need to know how to get the icon, kind of like this: Windows http://goo.gl/5WjdT So what I want to know is this: - Is there any REAL way to do this in Java - If so, how would you do it? Thanks in advance!

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