My jar file won't load images

I am currently writing a program that I need to send to a friend as a jar. The program has images that need to be loaded for the program to work properly and I want it all to be contained in the one jar. Currently it doesn't work from the executable jar or when I run it through command line. It works in netbeans however.

Here's the code I'm using:

To load the image I'm using:

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

for the URL I开发者_如何学JAVA've also tried just

 getClass().getResource(path)

The line where the image is supposed to be created is:

this.img =createImageIcon(File.separator+"."+File.separator
           +"resources"+File.separator+"tiles"+File.separator+"tile.png","tile");

My jar file is setup with the folder containing the class files and the resource folder both on the top level of it.

I have searched around for ways to resolve this, but I cannot find anything that works.

Thanks.

Your URL will evaluate to "/./resources/tiles/tile.png" which does not make sense (but maybe the ClassLoader that is used when you run from NetBeans tolerates the error.)
Try dropping the initial "/./". Also you do not need the references to File.separator as the string is treated as a relative URL and the forward slash is always valid.

Instead of using /./resources/back_img.png, use resources/back_img.png with ClassLoader.
Here is example :

    String path = "resources/back_img.png";
    ClassLoader cl = ImageHandler.class.getClassLoader();
    URL imgURL = cl.getResource(path);
    //URL imgURL = ImageHandler.class.getResource(path);

    if (imgURL != null) {
        ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(imgURL, description);
        Image img = icon.getImage();
        Image sizedImg = img.getScaledInstance(width, height, Image.SCALE_DEFAULT);
        return new ImageIcon(sizedImg);
    } else {
        System.err.println("Couldn't find file: " + path);
        return null;
    }

Despite anything else your code has the unenviable property of being fail-slow.

Try something like

URL x = get class.getclassloader.getresource(...)
If x == null
   Throw new defect "expected ... But it wasn't there"

Sorry for the formatting, but the iPad makes it too hard to do it right.

I fixed this issue in Intellij Idea by declaring my Background folder(which was containing the images) as Resource folder in project structure settings. In Intellij project structure can be accessed from File->Project Structure or with shortcut ctrl+shift+alt+S, inside that you can go to modules to configure the roles of all the folders in the project. I believe Netbeans might have similar feature.