Loading an image

Question

I have a problem with my code loading a file. I got some code for loading an image on the internet. the code compiles but when I add the module to my main (GraphicEvaluator.java) I get an error. below is the code and how I call the module plus the error that I encounter.
Please help me to figure this out so that it can work.
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.Image;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
  public class LoadImage {
      // (example) call routine with something like..
      // Image image = getImageFromJar("images/test.jpg");
     public Image getImageFromJar(String path) {
          //public Image loadimage(String path){
          InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream(path);
          ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
          ImageIcon icon = null;
          try {
              byte buf[] = new byte[8192];
              int len;
              while ((len = is.read(buf)) > 0) {
                  baos.write(buf, 0, len);
              is.close();
              try {
                  Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(baos.toByteArray());
                  return image;
              } catch (Exception decode) {
                  System.err.println(decode);
              } catch(IOException ioexception) {
                  System.err.println(ioexception);
          return null;
  }calling the code
public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent event)
        // Determine which object was the source of the event.
        Object source = event.getSource ();
if (source == menuOpen)
               LoadImage loadimage = new LoadImage();
            try
                Image bg;
                bg = LoadImage.getImageFromJar("frame.jpg");
            catch(Exception e) {}
        }the error
G:\workingprog2\GraphicEvaluator.java:278: non-static method getImageFromJar(java.lang.String) cannot be referenced from a static context
                bg = LoadImage.getImageFromJar("frame.jpg");
                              ^
1 error
Tool completed with exit code 1

Answer 1

non-static method getImageFromJar(java.lang.String) cannot be referenced from a static contextSo make the method static.
However, I still don't understand what you are doing using this code. I've mentioned the ImageIO class to you before.
Even if you ignore that advice I still don't understand why you are playing around with ByteArrayOutputStreams. If you actually look at the Toolkit API you will see a method the takes the filename as a string.