Re: path for loading images when using packages-not fixed but updated

From:

John Ersatznom <j.ersatz@nowhere.invalid>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:54:20 -0500

Message-ID:

<en3h8o$7st$1@aioe.org>

Brandon McCombs wrote:

Seems that the tk.getImage() method works with specifying the package
path of the image (at least when running the app in Eclipse; a regular
JAR may have issues yet). I found a couple lines in my code that needed
updated so now I just need to have tips on shortening the package path
for the images (without just storing the path in a String but maybe
that's the only way).

I'd just stuff the path in a String and concatenate the filename. The
other thing you could do is actually shorten the package name (in your
source file directory structure and your "package" and "import" statements).

Users loading files from arbitrary, user-supplied disk files is
different yet -- just get a filename or File object and load the image
via ImageIO rather than using getResource. Stuff that's self-contained
with your app, such as widget graphics, goes in the JAR and is got with
getResource; everything else is done with "normal" I/O. I think there
are AWT methods to read images from arbitrary disk files as well as the
ImageIO class (the latter's in Java 5 and later, but no earlier I think).