Understanding Images

**TheUncertainyAnswer** · 07-28-2013, 08:58 PM

So i've been trying to make a basic class to draw an image onscreen, and given that i could never make it work i had assumed that the issue was with the code until i coded the absolute path to the image resource and then it worked just fine. That being the case i think my issue is with how to utilize resources that have been imported into the project file. What i did was to go into the properties of the image and then copy/paste the path into the parameters of an ImageIcon. I can't understand for the life of my why this doesn't work and the absolute path does. Any thoughts?

Note my main method does nothing but call this. I'm using Eclipse so i can just drag and drop resources into the project. I've tried the path both with and without the preceding '/'. I've also tried both using and not using a sub-folder to house the files. Am i missing something? Thanks in advance.

Java Code:

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

import java.awt.*;

public class Screen extends JFrame {

	Image img;
	ImageIcon i = new ImageIcon("ImageTests/images/SpriteSheet.png");
	
	public Screen(){
		this.setSize(640, 480);
		this.setTitle("My UI");
		this.setVisible(true);
	}
	
	public void paint(Graphics g){
		g.drawRect(10, 10, 50, 50);
		img = i.getImage();
		g.drawImage(img, 100, 100, null);
		
	}
}