Using ImageIcons in java applets

[Babak]

Hi,

I'm new to this site because I'm having a problem changing one of my java swing applications to an applet so that I can put it on my website. The application is a little poker game I made, and it works great (even as an applet) except for when I run it using a web browser. No matter what I do, it seems that I cannot load the images into my program running it from internet explorer. The images are .jpgs and are in a folder one up from the .class location; I am loading the images using the ImageIcon class, and setting the icons onto buttons. The weird thing is that it all works when I run the applet in my compiler, so I don't know what's wrong. ANY help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much!

Babak Rashidi

[Babak]

No one has any answers?

[cjard]

youre attempting to read the images directly off disk, rather than usint getDocumentBase(), and hence youre running into a security exception, because applets arent allowed to access the local disk


http://forums.javaboutique.internet....&threadid=2490

[Babak]

Wow, you guys had quite the post about it before, thanks a lot! I've made the change, and my problem is better than it used to be (the program now doesn't stop running) except I still have ONE problem, that being that the images still don't show up. Anyway, it looks like it's a problem with where the images are stored or something (Although I know that's not it) but I can figure it out (and if I can't... I'll be back!) And btw cjar, your tutorial on jar files is awesome!!! I recommend anyone trying to put things on the internet to have a look!! I'm actually hoping that may solve my present problem. Thanks!

Babak

[zeb]

I had difficulty with using imageicons in an applet, so I nicked the following code from Sun:

protected static ImageIcon createImageIcon(String path, String description) {
java.net.URL imgURL = SwingApplet5.class.getResource(path);
if (imgURL != null) {
return new ImageIcon(imgURL, description);
} else {
System.err.println("Couldn't find file: " + path);
return null;
}


Then in the method that uses the imageicon, I used:

ImageIcon copyIcon = createImageIcon("images/copy.gif", "Copy");

where the images folder is in the folder containing the applet.
HTH