Loading Image in Java Applet

Question

When I try to run an applet in applet viewer it is not able to find resources (Image). I try to load resource like this:

String cb= this.getCodeBase().toString()         


        

Answer 1

Is your applet supposed to load images after it is loaded? Or would you be better served bundling necessary image resources in the jar with your applet?

I work daily on an applet-based application with plenty of graphics in the GUI. They are bundled in the jar-file. This si what we do:

// get the class of an object instance - any object.  
// We just defined an empty one, and did everything as static.
class EmptyClass{}
Class loadClass = new EmptyClass().getClass();
// load the image and put it directly into an ImageIcon if it suits you
ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon(loadClass.getResource("/com/blah/Images/a.png"));
// and add the ImageIcon to your JComponent or JPanel in a JLabel
aComponent.add(new JLabel(ii)); 

Make sure your image is actuallly in the jar where you think it is. Use:

jar -tf

... to get a listing.