IntelliJ IDEA - getClass().getResource(“…”) return null

Question

I\'m using IntelliJ IDEA 13.1.5, I used to work with Eclipse. I\'m working on JavaFX application, I try to load FXML file within my MainApp class using getClass().getResourc

Answer 1

TL; DR;

1. Put your resources in resources folder.

2. Use them with one slash before their names: getClass().getResource("/myfont.ttf");

Long Story;

If you are using Intellij IDEA and you created a Maven project, you should put your resources in resources folder (as marked as resource root by intellij itself) and these resource go to the root of your compiled app.

I mean, /resources/myfont.ttf will go to /myfont.ttf in the resulting build.

So you should get it via /myfont.ttf and not myfont.ttf. Use it like this:

getClass().getResource("/myfont.ttf");

No need to change anything else. Just this one helped me.