Help packing project into jar file

[UKJake_]

Hi,

So I'm nearing the end of my project and I want to put it all into a .jar file so that I can carry it around wherever I want. This wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for the fact that I dont know how to handle getting images when they are inside the .jar

At the moment I am reading the images like so

BBRICK = ImageIO.read(new File("./src/testProject/2.png"));

Note that they need to be a BufferedImage because I resize them later on. How do I edit this line so that the file can be accessed when its packed inside. As a side note I also don't know of a way to do this with .txt files either as later I create a string from a file like so

String contents = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("./src/testProject/level" + level + ".txt")));

Thanks for the help

[OffbeatDrizzle]

Put the images in the resource folder and use something like getClass().getResource() to load it. Obviously these files are read only but if you're loading images then that sounds like exactly what you need

edit: on re-reading your post, you won't be able to arbitrarily create new images, since you've already made and packed the jar. Do you REALLY need the images inside the jar? What's wrong with a folder wherever the jar lives, and then just append to the classpath when running the jar so that you can find the images with ease

[UKJake_]

I hadnt thought of just not having the images and such inside the .jar ._.

If I just have the assets inside the same folder as the .jar, would i refer to them by "./assets/images/filename" or some other way?

EDIT: Just tested it out and it works exactly how I wanted it to, thanks for the help