How do I load an image after I generated a .jar file with eclipse?

Question

I just wrote a mini-program in java that takes an image and prints it on frame. I used JPanel to load the image:

public class Board extends JPanel {

    private Image mummy;

    public Board() {

        initBoard();

    }

    private void initBoard() {
    
        loadImage();
    
        int w = mummy.getWidth(this);
        int h =  mummy.getHeight(this);
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(w, h));        
    }

    private void loadImage() {
    
        ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon("mummy.png");
        mummy = ii.getImage();        
    }

    @Override
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {

        g.drawImage(mummy, 0, 0, null);
    }
}

and JFrame to print it. Then I created the .jar file via the export section of Eclipse (Runnable JAR file).

The problem is that now I can't load the image when I run the .jar file. I tried putting the image everywhere on the .jar zip but simply the code doesn't load it.

Everyone knows how to load the images using this method, or should I use a wrapper to create the .jar file instead of eclipse?

Answer 1

Guys I figured it out:

The ImageIcon(""), has as default starting directory where all the code is put, but varies between an eclipse project and an eclipse generated Runnable jar file. -When it's a project: it's the directory of the project, so where the src and bin directory are. -When it's a .jar: src doesn't exist, and the starting directory now is the directory where the .jar file is situated.

For example: for simplicity let's situate the created runnable files in the ~ directory.

-Using new ImageIcon("src/images/mummy.png"), you'll have to put the directory "images" with the relative files in the src directory of the project, where the source files and packages are, making a structure like this:

...eclipse-workspace/Project/src/cli/*.java -where the source code is.

...eclipse-workspace/Project/src/images/mummy.png -where the file is.

After you created the runnable .jar with eclipse, you'll have to put a new "src" directory with the "images" in the same directory where the .jar is, making a structure like this:

~/project.jar (the .jar file)

~/src/images/mummy.png (the image I loaded in the code with new ImageIcon("src/images/mummy.png")

Thanks for the comments anyways.