Java getClass().getResource(“file”) leads to NullPointerException

Question

I am following the zetcode Snake java games tutorial and always get this error:

ImageIcon iid = new ImageIcon(this.getClass().getResource(\"ball.png\"));
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Answer 1

You can use only path of your image. I think this will help you: Use this:

ImageIcon iid = new ImageIcon("C:\\Users\\ranig\\My\\spaceinvaders\\ball.png");

Note: C:\\Users\\ranig\\My\\spaceinvaders\\ball.png is the whole path of ball.png image.

instead of this:

ImageIcon iid = new ImageIcon(this.getClass().getResource("ball.png"));

Note: If u want to only try snake code and only want to get output.