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Is it possible to remove an Icon or ImageIcon once it is set to a JButton or JLabel?
When a specific action in my program has taken place, the picture in no more appropriate and I want to remove it from a JLabel.

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Just set the JLabel's imageicon to null

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Does not seem to work.
To try it, I wrote:

alarmLab.setIcon(labIcon);
labIcon = null;

The icon stays visible.

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That just nulls your local variable. You need to tell the JLabel to use a null icon, eg:
myJLabel.setIcon(null);

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Yes James, that worked.

Thank you.

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