Image not exporting when making runnable jar

Question

In my project I use the system tray, when I compile the program everything is working fine and the icon that I use for the system tray shows up.

The icon is placed in the project folder and the code related to the icon is

Image icon = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("Icon.png");

trayIcon = new TrayIcon(icon, "Program name", popup);
trayIcon.setImageAutoSize(true);

tray.add(trayIcon);

As I said, everything works find but when I export the project as a runnable jar the program will run but the icon will not show up, but it will just be blank.

Make sure you include it in the list of files, but then use a resource loader from the class to load the image. — , Jul 08 '13 at 21:01
I hope this [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/9866659/1057230) might be of some use for this situation — nIcE cOw, Jul 09 '13 at 13:19

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '13 at 21:10

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If you would like to load resources from your .jar file use getClass().getResource(). That returns a URL with correct path.

Image icon = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("image´s path"));

answered Jul 08 '13 at 21:10

DRastislav

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '13 at 21:05

To access images in a jar, use Class.getResource().

I typically do something like this:

InputStream stream = MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("Icon.png");
if(stream == null) {
   throw new RuntimeException("Icon.png not found.");
}

try {
   return ImageIO.read(stream);
} catch (IOException e) {
   throw new RuntimeException(e);
} finally {
   try {
      stream.close();
   } catch(IOException e) { }
}

Image not exporting when making runnable jar

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