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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:54:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc: Joachim Jaeckel <Joachim.Jaeckel@d.kamp.net>,
	freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: problems loading images for buttons?
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Nate Williams wrote:

# > I=B4ve a problem trying to load an image for a button.
# >=20
# > The description of "new ImageIcon("images/middle.gif")" says, that it
# > loads the image relative to the path where the class-file is. But if I=
=B4m
# > not in this path, the image isn=B4t loaded. I=B4m using jdk1.1.7 for Fr=
eeBSD
# > (the old static Version...). Is this a bug in the jdk or do I something
# > wrong.
#=20
# I'm almost positive this is 'standard behavior' of how things work.
# Where is ImageIcon documented?  In my experiences, you load 'resources'
# out of the CLASSPATH, but certainly not images.

I've found that code similar to this works as expected for me.

=09ImageIcon(String imageName) {
=09=09Toolkit t =3D Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
=09=09URL url =3D ClassLoader.getSystemResource(imageName);
=09=09Image image =3D t.getImage(url);

=09=09return(new ImageIcon(image));
=09}

-steve



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