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    Default Need help to export .jar file

    I have created one program with GUI using Eclipse. I need to export it as a runnable .jar file. I do exactly as I seen on some tutorials.
    My problem is the following:
    Many of my buttons have ImageIcons. They have links to a Source Folder that I have in my project, where .jpg files of the Icons are located. The problem is that I do not find a way to make these icons visible after I run the .jar file.

    Here it is a piece of code having the methods I used to setIcons and how are the looking in my Eclipse Project.

    image.jpg

    Is there any problem that files are .jpg? Do I need to place them in another kind of folder?


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    Default Re: Need help to export .jar file

    I tried to do like that but I only got nullpointer exceptions. I ended with creating JButton class and drawing each button there inside the paintComponent method. Like that I no longer needed any resource file.

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    Creating images and buttons in the paintComponent method is not the way to do it. If your code is being executed from a jar file you should be using resources not disk files.
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    Default Re: Need help to export .jar file

    How are you accessing the images?
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