Question

I am trying to do my final project for my java class. I am attempting to take a .png picture and use it as a component that I can add to my JFrame. However, when I try to do this it throws an exception and does what is in the catch statement. I do not understand why it would do this. I have the .png file in the same folder as my .java files.

package InventoryApp;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JLabel;

/**
 *
 * @author Curtis
 */
public class FinalProject extends DFrame
{
//main method
public static void main(String[] args) 
{
    start();
}

//building splash screen

public static void start()
{   DFrame splashFrame = new DFrame();
    try
    {
    BufferedImage myPicture = ImageIO.read(new File("logo.png"));
    JLabel picLabel = new JLabel(new ImageIcon( myPicture ));
    splashFrame.add(picLabel);
    }
    catch(IOException g)
    {
        JLabel error = new JLabel("Picture Could Not Be Found");
        splashFrame.add(error);
    }


    JButton create = new JButton("Click to Create Item List");
    JButton view = new JButton("Click to View Item List");
    splashFrame.add(create);
    splashFrame.add(view);


}

}

Answer 1

When you create a File object with no path specified, it assumes the directory the program was launched from, not the directory the current class file is in. You probably want to instead use FinalProject.class.getResource():

BufferedImage myPicture = ImageIO.read(FinalProject.class.getResource("logo.png"));