Re: Write to to resources location from another module

Hmm., guess I should have thought a bit before I blurted, I'm real rusty 
on all this, I can't write to resources, there in jars, yes? I'll need 
to go about this differently I think, create the images differently, 
maybe ImageUtilities is not what I should use.

If anyone does have any insight, however, what I'm trying to do is:

I'm building an item in an inventory program from tables in a relational 
DB and one of the fields is a file name, ie foo.jpg.  The images are 
stored in the OS's file system rather than in the DB as a blob or such, 
I just thought that was better, I know the path, I just need the file 
name from the DB. I've been entering this field using the DB's interface 
but I'm now trying to implement the functionality pragmatically. Rather 
than a wizard I implemented a custom dialog with DialogDescriptor that 
allows manual entry of the path(well, not yet) and a browse button that 
opens a JFileChooser. That selected file I then copy to a known location 
and then I have problems using ImageUtilities.

Sorry to be so long-winded and thanks for the bandwidth,

Mark Wade

On 06/03/2016 04:23 PM, Mark Wade wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm loading images using ImageUtilities.loadImage(String resourceID) 
> in a viewer module.  In a separate editor module I'm trying to use a 
> filechooser dialog that can be used to select an image file which 
> would then be copied to that resource location. I tried to use 
> System.getProperty("user.dir") but that is not a resource and so 
> returns null.
>
> Can I get that particular module's class loader and get a path to that 
> resource location so that I can write an image file to it from outside 
> that module?
>
> -- Mark Wade
>
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