Java Swing: Displaying images from within a Jar

Question

When running a Java app from eclipse my ImageIcon shows up just fine.

But after creating a jar the path to the image obviously gets screwed up.

Is there a wa

Answer 1

This is working for me to load and set the content pane background image:

jar (or build path) contains:

 - com
 - img
 ---- bg.png

java contains:

JFrame f = new JFrame("Testing load resource from jar");
try {
    BufferedImage bg = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("/img/bg.png"));
    f.setContentPane(new ImagePanel(bg));
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Tested and working in both jar and unjarred (is that the technical term) execution.

BTW getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/img/bg.png") - which I tried first - returned me a null InputStream.