Getting a picture out of a jar?

[Zman3359]

[SOLVED]

Hello, I am trying to load a picture that is in a jar into my program. The current method I am using works fine if the picture is in the same folder or package as the main program but if the program is in com.main and the picture is in com.images I can't get it to work. Does anyone know how to do this? Here is my current method of getting the image:

ImageIcon imIc = new ImageIcon(this.getClass().getResource(imageName));
this.pic = imIc.getImage();

String imageName is usually "image.png" or whatever the name of the image is.

Thanks for the help pbrockway2 :)

[pbrockway2]

Are you using imIc for anything? If not, just use ImageIO.read() which also takes a URL argument.

Try using System.out.println() to print the URL returned by this.getClass().getResource(imageName) - the chances are you are looking in the wrong place for the image.

Notice that the name argument of getResource(name) can start with a / in which case the name is interpreted in absolute terms. You might find that it is conceptually easier to deal with something like

this.getClass().getResource("/com/images/MyImage.jpg")

[Zman3359]

Nope im only using imIc to get the image, so could I do:

Image pic = ImageIO.read("/com/images/MyImage.png");

EDIT: I anwsered my own question there :p . That doesn't work but this does:

this.pic = (Image)ImageIO.read(this.getClass().getResource("/com/images/MyImage.png"));

[Fubarable]

Nope im only using imIc to get the image, so could I do:

Image pic = ImageIO.read("/com/images/MyImage.png");

EDIT: I anwsered my own question there :p . That doesn't work but this does:

this.pic = (Image)ImageIO.read(this.getClass().getResource("/images/MyImage.png"));

yep, that's what was suggested in the first reply-- to use a URL not a String.

[Zman3359]

Yep I realized that when I went to implement it and it gave me an error :)