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Option #2 (putting the gif in the same directory as the class file) should
of worked. It will only show at runtime.

jim

Stephen Legge <stephen@cryptocard.com> wrote in message
news:8bdtn7$hr12@bornews.borland.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm loading a gif file and placing it in a JButton like so:
>
> ImageIcon myIcon = new ImageIcon("c:/gifs/mypicture.gif");
> btnConnect.setIcon(myIcon);
>
> and it works fine.  Now I want to remove the "c:/gifs/" from the path like
> so:
>
> ImageIcon myIcon = new ImageIcon("mypicture.gif");
> btnConnect.setIcon(myIcon);
>
>
> But this isn't working.  I tried three things:
>   putting the gif file in the same folder as the .java file
>   putting the gif file in the same folder as the .class file
>   adding the gif file to the JBuilder project
> but nothing worked.
>
> Can someone tell me how to get the file to load without hard-coding the
full
> path?
>
> Also, when I package up my entire project as a deployable jar file, will
the
> gif file still be accessible?
>
> *Any* help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Stephen Legge
> Ottawa, Canada
>
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