Question

I’ve been putting all of my images for my Java application in a package called “rtype” inside src where I also also have my Class that deals with these images. I wanted to sort the images and put them in a folder of their own. When I do this, The images will no longer load into the class, and I know it’s because I changed the file path. I’ve done some research and tried a few different things. This is basically what I had originally:

String walkingDown = "WalkingDown.gif";
ImageIcon ii;
Image image;
ii = new ImageIcon(this.getClass().getResource(walkingDown));
image = ii.getImage();

and It worked just fine before I moved the location of the images outside the location of the class. Now it cant find the images. Here is what I tried and found online to try (The folders Name is Sprites):

//use getClassLoader() inbetween to find out where exactly the file is
ii = new ImageIcon(this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(standingDown));

and

//Changing the path 
String walkingDown = "src\\Sprites\\WalkingDown.gif";
//also tried a variation of other paths with no luck

I am using the C drive, but don’t want to use “C” in my extension, as I want it to be accessible no matter where I put the project. I am fairly stuck at this point and have done enough looking into it to realize that It was time to ask.

Answer 1

I have a separate “package” for images with that name (in the src folder)

Try something like this:

 try {
        ClassLoader cl = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
        ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon(cl.getResource("images/WalkingDown.gif"));
    }
    catch(Exception imageOops) {
        System.out.println("Could not load program icon.");
        System.out.println(imageOops);
    }