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I'm writing some apps in Cocoa using Java, which I love. However, I need to call into the Carbon Toolbox and have found the JDirect3 bridge libraries, but am confused about how to turn one datatype into another. I want to be able to call Carbon's IconServices API from Java, which is possible, but I then need to somehow translate an IconServices opaque IconRef into something like a javax.swing.ImageIcon for display in a JTable or inside of a Cocoa NSOutlineView as an NSImage. Is there any way I can get the raw bytes of the IconRef and then create a new NSImage or ImageIcon from it? I've looked through the IconServices API but no such function jumped out at me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[bewebste]

If you just want to grab the icon for a file or a type of file, you could use the NSWorkspace methods iconForFile: and iconForFileType:

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Originally posted by bewebste:
<STRONG>If you just want to grab the icon for a file or a type of file, you could use the NSWorkspace methods iconForFile: and iconForFileType:</STRONG>

Thanks for the suggestion. One thing I was interested in was using the IconServices APIs to get icons for various system components, like the special folder icons, special Finder icons, etc. I think I may have figured out how to obtain the pointer from the opaque IconRef and get the raw bytes of the data. I can then feed that into a java.awt.image.ImageConsumer object and create a new Image object. At least I hope I can. Any other tips would be very welcome!