JAI ImageIO.read gives IllegalArgumentException

[Rachel Swailes]

Hi there

I recently suffered a windows crash and subsequent formatting of hard drive and getting my apps up and running is proving to be a total mission!

I am using JAI to handle images like bmp and tiffs and I am having trouble when loading a bmp using

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(chooser.getSelectedFile().toURL());

When I call this statement from my IDE (which runs the app from the java home dir) I have no problem. This was after setting the classpath to represent the jai jars.

When I call this statement when executing my app from any other place, I get the IllegalArgumentException. I guess the ImageReaders can't be seen for some reason.

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Many kind regards,
Rachel
[ November 09, 2004: Message edited by: Rachel Swailes ]

[Guy Allard]

Rachel - Was the previous install of JAI the same as what you did after reformat?

I am thinking specifically about did you install the DLL/.so's versus the .jar only solutions?

Have you asked this in the JAI interest group forum?

Guy