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Helge Smebye wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Are there some way to include all the icons in a jar or some other file
> type, and then access them in designtime and runtime from a applet ?
> 
> -helge

Sure.  Stick a gif into the same directory as a java class which
desires to load it.  Add it to your JBuilder project from that
location so that JBuilder will handle copying it over to the classes
tree at compile time.

In your java file, load the icon with something like this:

selectIcon = new ImageIcon( getClass().getResource( "EastArrow.gif" ) );

This code will execute no matter what form the application is deployed
in, ie jar file, directory tree, etc.

This may not work at design time, though.  Last time I looked,
Jbuilder used platform-specific hardcoded paths to access the icons.
:(  So your code isn't portable. 

Perhaps someone can suggest a method that's both portable and
JBuilder-friendly?



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