Eclipse Project with ImageIcon

Question

I have an eclipse project with an image folder. I need to create ImageIcon from an image located in this folder, but I can’t understand how to tell it to look in the folder without indicating the exact position in my system, which I don’t want to do when the project is moving to different PCs.

Code example

ImageIcon ai = new ImageIcon("/somedir");

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

you need to save the images folder to your project, and then:

java.net.URL imageURL = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("path_to_image_folder");
ImageIcon aceOfDiamonds = new ImageIcon(imageURL);

The path to the image folder can be relative to your class or absolute (starts with "/").

You can look here: How to use icons

Answer 2

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ImageIcon ai = new ImageIcon("somedir");