How can i add and access a folder of images to my java program (netbeans)

Question

I have created a simple java game. I want to put this game on a flash drive and play it on other computers. How can i make my Images folder part of the java package and access them from the program instead of using filepaths that will only work for my computer "C:\\Users\\Me\\Desktop\\mypic.png"

Answer 1

this might work

import javax.swing.filechooser.*;

FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getRoots()[0];

or

FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getHomeDirectory();

or

System.getProperty("user.dir");

Answer 2

Found a Solution, Two things i was doing wrong, I added my library to the wrong part of my project. At first i was adding my image package under source packages and it was named only "images". When I instead added my package to source packages with the name "myproject.images" (myproject = whatever your project name is) i was able to access my images using this code then -

try{
Image image = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("images/water.jpg"));
}catch(Exception e){}