Re: images and jar file craziness

On Wed, 7 May 2008 18:54:36 -0700 (PDT), Redbeard
<tom.cowdery@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>I was sure I was making some small mistake that I just couldn't see -
>which is why I posted.  I see now that my problem was that I was using
>the relative path rather than the absolute path.  Obviously, I have
>more to learn about that.  I'd read about absolute vs. relative paths
>and thought that relative was the way to go.

To get at resources inside the jar you use either the resource name
prefixed by the package or without where the package is implied by the
package of the calling class.

I explain this at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/resource.html
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