Image doesn't come up from the jar

[cadoltt]

Hi Everybody,


My program should show some stuff in the main area including an image (a gif file). It works when I run it from within Eclipse or when it starts from a command prompt window (OS WinXP).

With Eclipse I've created an executable jar file but when I try to run the program from the jar it shows everything but the image. I checked if the image got into the jar and it did.

Here are the code lines dealing with the image:

image=getToolkit().getImage(getClass().getResource("myImage.gif"));

...

g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, areaWidth,this.getHeight(), this);

Any idea what is wrong?


Thanks,

Alex

 

[Diancecht]

Is the image included with the rigth path?

Cheers,
Dian

 

[cadoltt]

Hi Dian,

Thanks for your response.

I didn't do anything special about the path. In the jar it is in the same folder with the class files.

What do I do? Should it be something like this:

image=getToolkit().getImage(getClass().getResource("c:\somefolder\myImage.gif"));

???


Thanks,

Alex

 

[sedj]

If the image is under the path in the jar :

acme\com\images

try :

image=getToolkit().getImage(getClass().getResource("\acme\com\images\myimage.gif");



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[sedj]

or rather :

image=getToolkit().getImage(getClass().getResource("/acme/com/images/myimage.gif");

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[cadoltt]

Thank you Sedj,


Please excuse my stupidity, but the thing is that the jar doesn't contain any directories. All class files and the image are in one place. Before I had a separate folder for the manifest but now even this is in the same spot with the other files.

More ideas?

Ales

 

[timw]

Have you tried this?

image=getToolkit().getImage(getClass().getResource("/myImage.gif"));

Tim

 

[cadoltt]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for getting into it.

I did what you suggested, even trying different slashes '/' and '\'. Still no effect...

Alex