Loading an image without intervention of user.dir (relative)

[Reskaillev]

I was playing with some images and found out that there was a problem..

Now my file structure looks like this:

---> Java Project
  |---> src
     |---> Package1
     |---> Images

I'm loading some Images in some Inline JPanels:

		
pane1 = new JPanel()
		{
			BufferedImage img = Afbeeldingsframe.createImage("src/Images/"+FIRST+".jpg"); //FIRST is a final String
			
			 public void paintComponent(Graphics g) 
			 {
			        g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);
			 }
		};

And this is createImage():

	
protected static BufferedImage createImage(String path) 
	{
		BufferedImage img = null;
		try 
		{
		    img = ImageIO.read(new File(path));
		} 
		catch (IOException e) {System.out.println(e.getMessage());}
		return img;
	}

Now I try to load the images by giving the path: "\Images\picture.jpg". Which doesn't work because my user.dir is set to \src
So I set my path to: "src\Images\picture.jpg" which fixes the problem.

Now I take my project and turn it into an executable .jar which has the following structure:

---> Silly_Name.jar
     |---> Package1
     |---> Images

Obviously my path is now: "Images\picture.jpg" and ain't "src\Images\picture.jpg" anymore! (because the structure is different)
When I change the path in my .java the .jar works fine but the .java doesn't run anymore! (in eclipse) because
the path is wrong here!

How to fix this? Or how to make a relative path that always points to my picture.jpg?

Thnx in advance,

Reskaillev

[wsaryada]

You can try the following snippet:

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("something.jpg"));

Please replace something.jpg with the relative path to your image file.

[DarrylBurke]

Go through the Oracle tutorial on How to Use Icons, which covers this in more detail.

db

[Reskaillev]

Thnx for responses XD

by replacing it with the following it does the trick: (because it is static)

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(myClass.class.getResource("something.jpg"));

Also read part about getResource() which was indeed the relative method I needed