Image inside jar file

[Vijay Chandran]

Dear friends,

I have to display some icons in the GUI which i create. I have included the following gif files in the code:

    
Image logo = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("icon/iconAbc.gif");
Icon openicon = new ImageIcon("icon/open.gif");
Icon saveicon = new ImageIcon("icon/Save.gif");
Icon saveasicon = new ImageIcon("icon/Saveas.gif");
Icon exiticon = new ImageIcon("icon/exit.gif");
Icon cuticon = new ImageIcon("icon/cut.gif");
Icon copyicon = new ImageIcon("icon/copy.gif");
Icon pasteicon = new ImageIcon("icon/paste.gif");
Icon findicon = new ImageIcon("icon/find.gif");
Icon Abouticon = new ImageIcon("icon/small.gif");

I created a seperate icon package and copied all those images inside this package.
When i create an executable jar and run it, these icon images are not getting displayed in the interface.

Kindly provide your help in resolving this problem.

Regards,
Vijay

[Ulf Dittmer]

The ImageIcon(String) constructor expects a file name as parameter, so that won't work. Something like the following should do the trick:

java.net.URL imgURL = getClass().getResource("icon/open.gif");
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(imgURL);

You may have to fiddle around with the path name, and whether or not there needs to be a slash in front of it.