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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:46:21 -0700, Gunter Sammet wrote:

> "/graphics/openFile.gif" didn't work for the second directory structure:
> 
> classes/occsoft/occproject/<class files>
> classes/occsoft/graphics/<graphic files>
> 
> occ/classes/occproject/<class files>
> occ/src/graphics/<graphic files>

It is not very clear from your example what your source and output 
paths are set to.  The normal way to handle this would be to place the 
graphics files in your source tree.  They will then be automatically 
copied to the output path, and that will be placed on the classpath 
when you run your program.

The path you specify to getResource() is relative to the root of the 
class tree.  If you do not specify a leading "/" on the path, it will 
be interpreted relative to the location of the class file for the class 
on which you call getResource().

> I don't like having the graphic directory underneath classes .
> Parallel would be fine but then I'm back to the problem of
> going up 2 directories.

If you do not want to do that, then you cannot use that mechanism to 
locate the graphics files.  The Class getResource() method uses the 
ClassLoader to locate the files, which means that it is going to look 
for them in the same location where the classes are loaded from.

I suppose you could create a separate parallel directory structure for 
your graphics files, and then add the root of that directory structure 
to the classpath.  I think you will find other things that do not work 
very well this way, but it should be possible.  I would recommend that 
you do things the "normal" way until you really understand all of the 
issues.

-- 
Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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