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No. I just meant to reiterate Json's point - access your image relative to your application and not relying on something like:
'c:/pictures/mercuryLogo.jpg' actually being there. Using the class...

Sorry, I mis-read your original post and thought you were just trying to create an ImageIcon. Anyway, from a URL you could create a 'dummy' ImageIcon and retrieve the image that way (getImage()) or...

An alternative method to load the image is to load it as a resource.



java.net.URL imgURL = getClass().getResource(path); //where path is a string path relative to your class
String pt =...