Accessing a png from inside a JAR

Question

Currently I have a compiled JAR file as follows:

RunMe.jar  
-GUIFile.class  
-Main.class  
-Notify.class  
-resources  
--sprites  
---myimg.png  
-com  
--random  
---package  
----MakeNotify.class  

Please explain to me how to access the PNG myimg.png inside MakeNotify.java

Thanks for all the advice in advance.

Answer 1

This depends, but generally, you want to use Class#getResource or Class#getResourceAsStream depending on how you want to read it.

Something like...

 BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("/resources/sprites/myimg.png"));

for example...