How do you get images from a JAR in an app

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hello All,

I was wondering, how do you get an image from a Java Archive in an application, when
the images are in the JAR.

I know that Applets can get them, but i don’t want to use applets to load the images from the JAR file.

How do you do it otherwise?

Thanks for your help, if any,

Richard.

#2

get the ClassLoader

ClassLoader cl = getClass().getClassLoader()

and call

cl.getResourceAsStream("yourimagefile");

There are plenty of examples around that show you how to do this. Google is your friend.

#3

Thanks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!

haven’t tried it yet, but i’m sure it’ll work.

was too lazy to check API docs for anything ( + i’m on my aunties computer, the docs aren’t downloaded)

btw:
to learn how much i’d really thank you, enter this in the browser address bar
(WARNING: you’ll have to close the browser in order to stop it!):

javascript:while(true){alert(“Thank you”)}

(stop typing here, hehe)
thanks again