Relative URLs not working in JAR file once JAR is moved

Question

I've been loading images with the following:
public static final ImageIcon anIcon = new ImageIcon("iconName.gif");
This works fine when all the class files are in the same folder with the gifs. I then packaged the whole folder into a .jar file, moved the resulting .jar file to another directory, tried running it and none of the icons loaded. They are present in the .jar file, why doens't the relative URL still work? Is there simply another way to write the URL so that it knows to look in the .jar file?
Thanks for help,
Robert Douglass

Answer 1

Is there simply another way to write the URL so that it knows to look in the .jar file?Once you put the class files along with your gif files in a jar, you have to access the gif file like this:
import java.net.*;
URL url=myClass.class.getResource("iconName.gif");
ImageIcon anIcon = new ImageIcon(url);
Where myClass is the name of your class file.
V.V.