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Try this:

    URL url = getClass().getResource( "images/explode.gif" ) );
    Icon icon = new ImageIcon( url );

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John P. McGrath
<JPMcGrath@fast.net>
<jpm@nscs.fast.net>


On Mon, 22 May 2000 00:45:20 -0300, Alan Shiers wrote:

> Hi there:
>     I'm trying to understand how to designate the path to a particular
> file when making use of the ImageIcon(String filename) class. In the
> help files it explains that the filename arguement should be something
> like: "images/explode.gif"
> 
> My directory stucture is like this:
> 
> network
>     |__ jbsc
>             |__images
> 
> My class files are in jbsc. I place a copy of explode.gif in all three
> directories.
> Then I tried ImageIcon("images/explode.gif").  I expected it to find the
> file in the images directory but it didn't. So I tried just
> ImageIcon("explode.gif") thinking it will at least find the file in jbsc
> (the same directory as the class files). Nope, it didn't. So I tried
> ImageIcon("network/explode.gif").  This time it found it!
> 
> The thing is, I want it to load from the images directory. So how do I
> tell it that?
> 
> Alan
> 
>