Trying to load icon from jar file

Question

I am trying to load icons from a jar file. I have both tried to load it from classes within the jar file as well as classes outside the jar file.

outside of the

Answer 1

Skip the class loader, and get the resource as a stream instead. If you don't need the URL you can turn them directly into BufferedImages like so. I've left the stream and exception handling as a further exercise.

InputStream stream = LoadHTMLExample.class
    .getResourceAsStream( "/icons/mouse.png" );
BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read( stream );

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Questioner needs the URL which brings us back to everyone else's suggestions. The images are definitely in the jar aren't they?