Directory problem

[dorito]

This is not a reply to Luron31 ... but for some reason I cannot create a new thread. So excuse me for temporarily highjacking the thread.

I am using NetBeans and trying to write an image (.png) to a Panel. In order to get the image file, I've had to specify the entire path of the resource file, i.e.

image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("C:/Documents and Settings/Krall/My Documents/NetBeansProjects/Qubic/src/qubic/resources/lightgroup.png");

...
g.drawImage (image,0,0,this);

When I google use of getImage() ... all the examples use a *relative* path name -- e.g.

getImage ("lightgroup.png");

My question is: what directory path does the system use by default to locate the image files? Is there a way to programmatically obtain this path ? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with CLASSPATH ... but as you can see above, I was able to locate and use an image file (lightgroup.png) that was already a resource stored in my project hierarchy.

Of course I could store all the image files I want to use in the exact same place and I could use a full fixed file path every time I do getImage() ... but I'm trying to understand how Java/NetBeans works in this regard.

Thanks

[JosAH]

Hi, I moved your post to its own thread; to start a new thread navigate to

topics>Java>

There are two choices there: 'answers' and 'insights'. The first choice brings you to the forum, the second one shows you a bunch of articles, written for your information. You can start your thread in the first choice (there's a button near the top of that page).

kind regards,

Jos

[JosAH]

Better use the static method read(InputStream ...) from the ImageIO class and obtain the InputStream from the getResourceAsStream(String ...) from the Class class. That way images don't even have to be stored as files but can be stored in jar files etc.

kind regards,

Jos