Error With Simply Displaying Picture

I have no clue what's wrong here. I'm starting to learn about games in Java, and I'm reading a free online tutorial. It starts with applets. On the first page, the writer tells us how to display pictures, but, for some reason, my picture isn't displaying. I've attached my code, along with a picture of the working applet. (In case it's pertinent, I'm using NetBeans.)

Code:

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package game;

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class HelloWorld extends Applet
{
  // I recieve a "warning" unless I have the following line.
  private final static long serialVersionUID = 42L;
  private Font comicSansMS;
  private Image katsucon;
 
  public void init()
  {
    katsucon = getImage(getDocumentBase(), "katsucon.jpg");
    setFont(new Font("Comic Sans MS", Font.BOLD, 30));
  }
 
  public void paint(Graphics g)
  {
    g.setColor(Color.GREEN);
    g.drawString("Hello, World!", 50, 50);
   
    g.drawImage(katsucon, 0, 0, this);
  }
}

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Dang. I can't post links or images yet. Well, I'll describe the output. The program runs fine. "Hello, World!" in green, 30-point Comic Sans MS even appears, but it appears on a white background. My picture, katsucon, is nowhere to be seen. (Yes, katsucon.jpg is in my source folder.)

What's wrong and how do I fix it?

NetBeans, you say? Clean and Build the project and try again.

Let us know if that doesn't do the trick.

db

Is there an error message in the console?
How are you executing the applet? In a browser or via the appletviewer.

Darryl: I pressed "Clean and Build Main Project" (Shift+F11) under the Build menu, but that didn't fix anything. (I assume that option is what you meant. I don't know what "cleaning" the project means.)

Norm: There is no error message. I am running it via the AppletViewer, I believe. (I'm right clicking the file icon and selecting "Run File" [Shift+F6].) I'm not sure how to run it via a browser. I tried once, but I wasn't sure where to put the .html file; should it be in the same folder as the .class or the .java (NetBeans puts them in different folders)?

EDIT: I just found an HTML file for the HelloWorld applet. Apparently NetBeans automatically creates one. I opened it, and I received the same display as the AppletViewer: Green "Hello, World!" with white background (no picture).

Woo! I did it! It turns out, first I needed to change getDocumentBase() to getCodeBase(), then I needed to move the JPEG file from NetBeansProjects\Game\src to NetBeansProjects\Game\build\classes. Apparently I wasn't pointing to the picture correctly at first.