Add images to jar

Question

I want to set icon to my JFrame. I do the following:

Image icon = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(\"src/images/icon.jpg\");
this.setIconImage(icon);
         


        

Answer 1

For this to work, you should access the images from a directory relative to some fixed class. For example, if the image files are saved in a directory "images" on the same level as the Toolkit.class, then

this.setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(Toolkit.class.getResource("images/icon.jpg"))); should work.

Answer 2

Assuming your JAR file has a top level directory called images, you can use either:

1. getClass().getResource("/images/icon.jpg") or
2. getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("images/icon.jpg")