Image not displayed while running executable jar ?????

Question

hello everyone...i have developed a game like mario and everything is happening well......
i have created an executable jar file of my game so that i can distribute it to my friends.............
now the problem is :
my all the images that are used in my game are in "Images folder", so when i run my executable jar file outside the reach of images folder than images does not get displayed on my game.................i mean when jar file is located beside my images folder then images get displayed but if i move my jar file to some other location then images doesn't get displayed.......
i have included images folder inside my executable jar file.....but same problem arises......
in my game, to display images i have used this code:
Image img=new ImageIcon("Images\\hero.gif").getImage();
so Images folder should be located at the same directory where my game is located....................
so can anyone tell me why this is happening ?
i want to execute jar file even if i relocate my jar file(i've put images folder inside jar).......
Edited by: JGarage on Nov 28, 2008 10:45 PM
Edited by: JGarage on Nov 29, 2008 12:50 AM

Answer 1

inside my jar , i have these three folders:
engine play res manifest.txt
engine and play are packages
to load an image i have used these code
Image img=new ImageIcon("res\\t.gif").getImage();
to draw image:
g2d.drawImage(img,x,y,this);
i had also used what u said :
img=ImageIO.read(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(path));
Note: earlier u adviced me ImageIO.read(Thread.getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("res/y.gif"));
getContextClassLoader() is not an static method so i can't acess it from static context.It gave me compilation error.so i used Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().
and i haven't used BufferedImage.I have used Just Image.