Compiling issue Involving IMAGES

Question

OK, here's the situation. I have an image directory in the directory that I have put all my source code in. I am attempting to use the IDE NetBeans. When I compile my code via command.prompt using the command
java -classpath C:\JAVA\ divelog.DiveLog
everything is peachy keen and all my images work.
When I compile + execute my code via NetBeans, the applet loads but it doesn't seem to find any of my images. I've tried many different approaches to this problem such as giving a direct path
new ImageIcon("C:\\JAVA\\images\\diveflag.gif"), JLabel.CENTER);
and copying the images into the root of my directory
but
nothing seems too work.
I am extremely new to this Java business, sry if this is a typical problem.
-charmwhore

Answer 1

[url http://jedit.org]jEdit can do all that for you too, and quite likely takes a lot less time to start. In fact, the code & comment block collapsing thing of Netbeans was copied from jEdit methinks. It doesn't have a GUI builder though, but I guess you haven't been using it in order to be able to follow the tutorial word to word?
You talk about applets but 'divelog' is a tutorial for creating an application... just to make sure: you are writing an application, not an applet, right ? Applets have security restrictions which disallow, among other things, reading files from the local filesystem.
I'm not a NetBeans user so I can't help you much with it...
I'm not completely new to programming.To object oriented programming? You know, the basic idea is completely different from C, VB, Perl, etc ... Divelog mostly teaches you about building a gui and you learn about the important features only "on the side," the better explanations are elsewhere.... it's your brains & time though :)