Displaying a BufferdImage in an Applet

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to display a BufferedImage, stored on a host computer, in an applet that will be viewed over the internet. The applet works fine when I run it in an appletviewer, but when I put it in an html file the image doesn't show up. Is there some other way to pre-load the image into the applet or something? I can do everything else fine once I have the image file buffered into the applet, using ImageIO. The image will not have to change or anything unusual, I just want it available to the applet. It will be stored in the same directory as the applet.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Ottobonn wrote:
OK, here is the full description of my situation:
I have an applet, that will be stored on a server. In the same directory as the applet, I will also have a jpeg image, that the applet will end up using. However, I am having trouble getting the image into my program. I have tried ImageIO's read() method, and I have also tried getImage(URL location, String imgName)
I haven't been able to get the image with either of these successfully, and I am wondering if there is a quick way to simply create a BufferedImage object out of the image file in the local directory.
The applet runs fine in an appletviewer, or when instantiated and put in an application's frame. However, when the applet is put in an html file, it can't access the image it needs anymore. Here is an example of what I have tried, using ImageIO:
BufferedImage puzzleImage;
File imageFile = new File("image.jpg");
ImageIO imageGetter = new ImageIO();
Uh...That's not a URL, that's a File object. The File object looks on the user's own machine.
Also, you don't need to instantiate ImageIO. The methods you'll use are static.
try{
puzzleImage = imageGetter.read(imageFile);
}catch(Exception e){}And don't catch exceptions silently.
I think you want something more like this:
BufferedImage puzzleImage;
try {
   puzzleImage = ImageIO.read(this.getClass().getResource("image.jpg"));
} catch(Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}