Applet works in applet viewer but not browser...why?

Question

I won't go into the code, but here's my problem: I work on my applet using Eclipse and its appletviewer, and the applet works fine. I test my applet once in a while by packing all class files and graphics into a jar file, copying it and html file to my desktop and opening the html file. Before, this would work (the applet would get all its info from the jar file), but now... I get a nullpointer exception when I open the browser. If this were to happen in Eclipse, I'd have some way of tracking it. Is there some way of tracking this problem when its seen in a browser?

Answer 1

here's certain key parts of my code... I think this whole "applet not working outside of the project folder" thing started ever since I changed my init() and start() functions so...
     public void init()
          t = new Thread(this);
          t.start();
          addKeyListener(this);
          addMouseListener(this);
          addMouseMotionListener(this);
          sound = new SoundList(); 
     public void start()
          URL resdir;     
          resdir = getClass().getResource("Graphics/Spacebackdrop_01.jpg");
          backgrndImg = new ImageIcon(resdir);
               resdir = getClass().getResource("Graphics/Ship_Blue.gif");
          player1 = new Ship(100, 300, new ImageIcon(resdir), this,
                    gameRect, sound);
          player1.setOrientation(90);
          resdir = getClass().getResource("Graphics/Ship_Green.png");
          player2 = new Ship(700, 300, new ImageIcon(resdir), this,
                    gameRect, sound);
          player2.setOrientation(270);
          resdir = getClass().getResource("Graphics/Ball.gif");
          ball = new Ball(50, 50, new ImageIcon(resdir), this,
                      gameRect, sound);
          initMenus();
          //Initialize the goals
          resdir = getClass().getResource("Graphics/Goalpost.png");
          ImageIcon goalImg = new ImageIcon(resdir);
          goal1 = new Goal(8, gameRect.height/2, 100, goalImg, this);
          goal2 = new Goal(gameRect.width - 8, gameRect.height/2, 100, goalImg, this);
          font = new Font("Verdana", Font.BOLD, 16);
     public void initMenus()
          startMenu = new Menu();
          pauseMenu = new Menu();     
          confirmMenu = new Menu();
          int setY = 200;
          ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/newgame.png"));
          ImageIcon imgRoll = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/newgame_h.png"));
          ImageIcon imgPressed = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/newgame_p.png"));
          startMenu.addCenteredButton(img, imgRoll, imgPressed, setY, 0, gameRect.width);
          pauseMenu.addCenteredButton(img, imgRoll, imgPressed, setY, 0, gameRect.width);
          setY += 20;
          img = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/resumegame.png"));
          imgRoll = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/resumegame_h.png"));
          imgPressed = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/resumegame_p.png"));
          pauseMenu.addCenteredButton(img, imgRoll, imgPressed, setY, 0, gameRect.width);
          img = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/Yes.png"));
          imgRoll = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/Yes_h.png"));
          imgPressed = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/Yes_p.png"));
          setY += 25;
          int imgWidth = img.getIconWidth();
          confirmMenu.addButton(img, imgRoll, imgPressed, gameRect.width/2 - imgWidth, setY);
          //startMenu.activate(); //make starmenu active.
          img = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/No.png"));
          imgRoll = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/No_h.png"));
          imgPressed = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Graphics/No_p.png"));
          confirmMenu.addButton(img, imgRoll, imgPressed, gameRect.width/2 + 2, setY);
     }