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Loading images for an applet from a JAR file (Swing)

I'd like to modify the following code so that it will load the images for the applet from the JAR file:

public static ImageIcon loadImageIcon(Applet applet, String filename)
throws MalformedURLException
{
URL url;

try {
url = new URL(applet.getCodeBase(), filename);
} catch(MalformedURLException e) {
throw (new MalformedURLException());
}

return new ImageIcon(url);
}

I have tried using the constructor URL(String filename), giving a relative path to the images which did not work.

Thanks.

sailwind

using:

new URL(applet.getCodeBase(), filename);

will not create an URL which can bypass the browser's security sandbox.

Convert it to:

url = new URL(applet.getCodeBase() + filename);

and that should work.

mwalker

ASKER

I'm sorry, but this didn't work either. Here's my scenario:

In HTML file:
<APPLET NAME="MyApplet" CODEBASE="../lib" CODE="MyApplet.class" WIDTH="745" HEIGHT="475"
ALIGN="BOTTOM" CODEBASE="myapplet.jar">

All of the images are in a subdirectory of lib. To test your proposed solution, I moved this directory after adding the images to the JAR file.

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fontaine

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