java setting font in jar file

Question

I'm trying to set a font "bilboregular.ttf" found in the resources folder under the root of the jar file. If i run from netbeans the font is set successfully, however if from the jar file it isn't

CODE:

main method:{

        String s = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "\\src\\resources\\" + "bilboregular.ttf";
        File a = new File(s);
        if (a.exists()) {
            this.loadFont(s);
        } else {
            this.loadFont(this.getClass().getResource("/resources/" + "bilboregular.ttf").getFile());
        }
}

 public void loadFont(String s) {
    try {
        font = java.awt.Font.createFont(java.awt.Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new File(s));
        font = font.deriveFont(Font.PLAIN, 20);
        GraphicsEnvironment ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
        ge.registerFont(font);
        setFonts();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
    }

}

public boolean setFonts() {
    jLabel3.setFont(font);
    jLabel4.setFont(font);
    return true;
}

Answer 1

Your main can't use getClass() because its static (assuming you mean public static void main(String args[]) with "main").

Try this code:

InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/resources/bilboregular.ttf");
Font f = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, is);

if this doesn't work: please post the structure of your JAR and and the thrown exception (eg. use a Logger in your catch Block).
Btw. an empty exceptionblock is not a good idea here since IO operations can fail in many cases.