Thread: Compiled .jar won't run when using .wav-files.

I have created a simple GUI that loops a .wav-file when a button is clicked. This works perfectly when run in Eclipse. However, when compiling it in a runnable .jar, it does not run. No errors thrown, it just doesn't run. Here is the full code:

import java.awt.EventQueue;
 
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioInputStream;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem;
import javax.sound.sampled.Clip;
import javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException;
import javax.sound.sampled.UnsupportedAudioFileException;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
 
 
public class Lydtest extends JFrame {
 
	/**
	 * 
	 */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	private JPanel contentPane;
 
	/**
	 * Launch the application.
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
			public void run() {
				try {
					Lydtest frame = new Lydtest();
					frame.setVisible(true);
				} catch (Exception e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		});
	}
 
	/**
	 * Create the frame.
	 * @throws IOException 
	 * @throws UnsupportedAudioFileException 
	 * @throws LineUnavailableException 
	 */
	public Lydtest() throws UnsupportedAudioFileException, IOException, LineUnavailableException {
		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		setBounds(100, 100, 114, 72);
		contentPane = new JPanel();
		contentPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));
		setContentPane(contentPane);
		contentPane.setLayout(null);
 
		File lydklipp = new File("pessent.wav");
		AudioInputStream audioIn = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(lydklipp);
		final Clip clip = AudioSystem.getClip();
		clip.open(audioIn);
 
 
		JButton btnTestLyd = new JButton("Pezzent!");
		btnTestLyd.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
				clip.loop(getDefaultCloseOperation());
			}
		});
		btnTestLyd.setBounds(10, 11, 91, 23);
		contentPane.add(btnTestLyd);
	}
}

See Norm's reply here:http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...n-compile.html

Thank you! Would you care to be more specific, though? Am I simply supposed to use a URL-request instead? I am new to mixing sound and images with GUI's, so I'd appreciate a step by step guide as to how to do this. I do not understand how I am supposed to put the .wav-file inside the .jar.

Export it together with your class files and use classGetResourceAsStream to obtain an InputStream. This InputStream is the parameter for the AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream()

Alright, so here is what I've changed:

InputStream lydklipp = 
		        this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("pessent.wav");
		AudioInputStream audioIn = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(lydklipp);
		final Clip clip = AudioSystem.getClip();
		clip.open(audioIn);

Still works perfectly in Eclipse, but the .jar won't run.

After doing some research, I see that many people have overcome this problem by creating a seperate folder which they call something like "res" or "resources", make it a sourcefolder, and create another folder named "sound" and add their files there. I do not seem to get this to work.

Originally Posted by EatMyBible

it just doesn't run.
I do not seem to get this to work

Add some printlns to the code to see how far the code does get. If there are no compile errors and no runtime errors, it did something somewhere correctly.
Figure out where things go wrong, or at least try to localize the problem.
Then tell us what does it do, where do things seem to go unexpected, and what would you like to happen instead, and ask some question about what you do not understand.