Java applet AccessControlException issue

Question

I am having problems with my new Java applet.

 public Speler() {
     this.x = 10;
     this.y = 470;
     hitBox = new Rectangle( x, y, 52, 10 );
     spaceShip = new ImageIcon( "images/spaceship.png" );
}

In my project's src folder, I have some .png images which need to be loaded in. In Eclipse AppletViewer this works just fine, however in my browser it does not.

I have already searched the internet and tried signing it, however this didn't help.

Any help would be appreciated, however I just started programming in Java, so I don't know an awful lot!

Answer 1

new ImageIcon( "images/spaceship.png" );

That constructor presumes the String represents a File path. It cannot work for an applet from a web site since a File can only ever point to a resource on the client computer where the applet is running.

For an applet, instead access resources by URL . The URL might be constructed relative to the code base or document base of the applet, or from a Jar on the run-time class-path of the applet. If an applet is digitally signed and declares all-permissions , it can even reach across sites to fetch images, as long as the external site allows hot-linking.