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Reputation: 39

Applet cannot seem to find resources

There is a similar question (Java Applet Cannot Locate Resources), but base gives me an error, and asks me for the creation of a variable.

I have an applet that I embedded into HTML with:

<object type="application/x-java-applet" height="600" width="800">
<param name="code" value="net.me.applet.WindowMain" />
</object>

The applet launches, and attempting to change the contentpane's color works too, so that means that the link with the HTML might not have errors.

Then, I linked my assets like so:

ImageIcon left = new ImageIcon(getCodeBase(), "Arrow_Left.png");

The PNG is in the same directory as my applet. The images don't show, so I assume that the assets were not found. I also tried doing "/Arrow_Left.png", without avail.

The directory structure is this:

/ root directory
index.html
(dir)net
     | me
         | applet
               | WindowMain.class

When I developed the applet in Eclipse, I made a package with the compilation unit, and a folder called "assets" in the src folder, and I accessed those for testing purposes with ImageIcon("src/assets/Arrow_Left.png")

Upvotes: 1

Views: 99

Answers (1)

Andrew Thompson
Andrew Thompson

Reputation: 168825

I put the PNG in the same dir as my WindowMain.class

Then the string needs to be the relative path from the code base. Something like:

ImageIcon left = new ImageIcon(getCodeBase(), "net/me/applet/Arrow_Left.png");

But definitely heed the advice to use ImageIO.read(..) which provides better feed-back.

Upvotes: 1

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