How to close ImageIcon file

[Phil...]

I have a directory that has lots of jpg and gif files.
I want to delete all of the small ones, those with
height or width less than 100 px.
I use close to the following code to get the height and width.

File dir = new File(".");
String files[] = dir.list();
ImageIcon myimage = new ImageIcon(files);
int height = myimage.getIconHeight();
int width = myimage.getIconWidth();

At this point, File.delete() returns false
most of the time. My guess is that the file
is still open. How can I close it so I can delete it?
N.B. File.deleteOnExit() works fine.

Tnx, phil...

 

[William Brogden]

I have a directory that has lots of jpg and gif files.
I want to delete all of the small ones, those with
height or width less than 100 px.
I use close to the following code to get the height and width.

File dir = new File(".");
String files[] = dir.list();
ImageIcon myimage = new ImageIcon(files);
int height = myimage.getIconHeight();
int width = myimage.getIconWidth();

At this point, File.delete() returns false
most of the time. My guess is that the file
is still open. How can I close it so I can delete it?
N.B. File.deleteOnExit() works fine.

When you load an image that way, a separate Thread is started to load the file.
Your result varies because sometimes the file is still being loaded.
Look at the JavaDocs for ImageIcon - the getImageLoadStatus in particular.
You can't reliably look at the height and width before the image is loaded.

Bill