*.txt Files in *.Jar

Question

Hi!
In my project I have both Images and txt files that needs to follow the jar. I have no problem getting the images to work using this example: http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/5697
URL myurl = this.getClass().getResource("png/1.png");
Toolkit tk = this.getToolkit();
Image img = tk.getImage(myurl);I have not been able to find out how to get this to work with txt files. In my project the txt is opened using a string like this:
File file = new File("src/myProject/txt/"+ "File.txt");This works fine when using netbeans, but the file is not opened when running the program from the jar
I noticed that Toolkit does not have a getFile( URL url ), is there a similar way to do this? How do I create File objects in a jar?
Thanks in advance!
Edited by: ja9unath on Dec 2, 2009 7:16 AM
Edited by: ja9unath on Dec 2, 2009 7:16 AM

Answer 1

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Why do you need to? You can read an InputStream or use it to create an InputStreamReader.
I don't know if it will work, but you can try to convert the URL to a URI and File has a constructor that takes an URI.I have found no method to convert URL 2 URI. Is there such a thing?
I need to use a File-object since I am using this method in my project:
public String txt2String(File file) {
        String output;
        StringBuffer contents = new StringBuffer();
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        try {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
            String text = null;
            // repeat until all lines is read
            while ((text = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                contents.append(text).append(System.getProperty(
                        "line.separator"));
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                if (reader != null) {
                    reader.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
        output = contents.toString();
        return output;
    }so... How to create a File-object from the *.jar? or is there a way to make this method use InputStream instead of File?
Thanks