Re: [gl4java-usergroup] loading pngs from jar files

[kaffiene <kaf...@xt...>]

Byron Wright wrote:

>put the png in a jar file then do something like 
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>URL url = YourClass.class.getResource("your.png"); 
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>Image img=Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(url); 
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>So if your class is called "Game"
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>URL url = Game.class.getResources("your.png"); 
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>rememeber that the string you pass to the getResources method is the
>path in the jar file to the image so
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>getResources("/your.png") would point to the root of the jar file. 
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>There is another method that might be helpful:
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>InputStream in = Game.class.getResourceAsStream("your.png"); 
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>Then you can do whatever you want with the inputstream. 
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>-Byron
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I'm sorry, what I meant to ask was how to load a png and use it as a 
texture in gl4java.  The gl4java png texture loader doesn't support 
inputstreams.  Just file names or URLs..

Apologies for the poorly worded request ;-)

Peter.