Thread: BufferedImage read file issue

Hello, I am trying to read an image I have in the location of my project,

So I do this:
When I read it in the try/catch like: BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new file(""));
and try to access it after the try/catch, it does not know that image exists, so I need to declare it as a global variable for that class first, and then it works.
Can I get around this or am I just doing something wrong?

Thank you!

public class Gui extends JFrame
{
    private BufferedImage image1;
    public Gui()
    {
        super("MyApp");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        setVisible(true);
 
        initUI();
 
    }
    public void initUI()
    {
        JPanel mPanel = new JPanel();
        JButton button = new JButton();
 
        try{
   image1 = ImageIO.read(new File("icon.jpg"));
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        System.out.print("Error reading image");
    }
        JLabel label1 = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(image1));
 
        add(label1);
 
    }
}

to declare it as a global variable

What is the "it"?
Is this a problem with the scope of a variable?
Variables declared inside of a {} pair are not known outside of the {}s.

Does the posted code work
or does it have the problem?

it refers to image1(BufferedImage), sorry if I was not clear enough.

And what I was trying to achieve was to declare the BufferedImage inside the try/catch area, "fill it" at the same time and using it in the same method, outside of the try{} area.

So if I get this straight, I need to declare image either as a global variable, or somewhere else in my method, and then try/catch, but if i declare image inside try, I cannot use image outside of try{} in the same method?

Thank you for taking the time to respond, even though I already said it was "solved", appreciate it!