where did the images go in my jar-file?

[Yam]

When I run my application from inside JCreator everything looks good. But
when I run the same application from a JAR-file, none of the pictures (gif)
shows.
Any clue?
Yam

 

[Andrew Thompson]

When I run my application from inside JCreator everything looks good. But
when I run the same application from a JAR-file, none of the pictures (gif)
shows.
Any clue?

Many. Which ones do you want?

Dump the IDE, it is slowing you down.
<http://www.xdweb.net/~dibblego/java/faq/answers.html#Q34>

Post to a group better suited to beginners.
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#cljh>

Check the exceptions that are thrown
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#exact>

...assuming you (or JCreator) is not swallowing them.
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#cljh>

For loading resources generally.
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#path>

HTH

 

[Andrew Thompson]

..assuming you (or JCreator) is not swallowing them.
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#cljh>

Oops! That link should be..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#stacktrace>

 

[jfalt]

I believe that if you have the image inside your jar file, you have to
use the getResourceAsStream method to retrieve it.

 

[Morten Alver]

I believe that if you have the image inside your jar file, you have to

use the getResourceAsStream method to retrieve it.

I don't know about that method, but if you're using
javax.swing.ImageIcon, you can use getResource("/path/to/image") to
get an URL which you pass to ImageIcon's constructor. Remember the
initial "/" in the file name.

 

[Morten Alver]

When I run my application from inside JCreator everything looks good. But

when I run the same application from a JAR-file, none of the pictures (gif)
shows.
Any clue?

On the command line, "jar tf filename.jar" lists the contents of the
jar, so you can see where they are.