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On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 15:23:00 -0500, Stephen Legge wrote:

> 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);

Try:
    ImageIcon myIcon = new ImageIcon(
        getClass().getResource("mypicture.gif") );

> 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.

Place the image file in the same folder as the source file for the Java 
class that contains the above code, and add it to your project.  JBuilder 
will automatically copy it to the folder that contains the .class file, 
which is where it needs to be.

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John P. McGrath
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