Where to park my abc.wav file in the Netbeans IDE

[Dave Elwood]

I've got a nice little app done with a wav file to make a noise.

Now I'd like to clean & build the whole thing into MyApp.jar with NetBeans.

Problem is.....where do I put my abc.wav file? Must I modify an xml for this?

[Kevin Moody]

First create a new Java package like com.dave.elwood.resource.sounds within your main project. Then just copy/paste 'abc.wav' file into that new package.

[Maneesh Godbole]

You also need to remember, while access packaged resources in a jar, you should be accessing the using getClass().getResource()

[Dave Elwood]

Okay, I put my Bang.wav into a seperate package, "Resources"

   public void makeBangSound() {

        File file = new File(this.getClass().getResource("Resources.Bang.wav"));
        try {

            InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
            AudioStream as = new AudioStream(in);
            AudioPlayer.player.start(as);
        }
        catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            msgBox("file not found : " + e.getMessage());
        }
        catch (IOException eio) {
            msgBox("io exception " + eio.getMessage());
        }
    }

and this doesn't compile.....what to do??

[Maneesh Godbole]

Dave Elwood wrote:
and this doesn't compile.....what to do??

What error message did you get?

[Dave Elwood]

Correction - it compiles and builds but when running this comes out :

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at sun.audio.AudioStream.<init>(AudioStream.java:48)
        at MyWidgets.MyPanel.makeCrashSound(MyPanel.java:1337)
        at spacer15.Spacer15View.jbtnClearMouseClicked(Spacer15View.java:309)
        at spacer15.Spacer15View.access$400(Spacer15View.java:26)
        at spacer15.Spacer15View$7.mouseClicked(Spacer15View.java:182) etc. etc.

the line MyWidgets.MyPanel.makeCrashSound(MyPanel.java:1337) is the line after :

InputStream in = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("Resources.Bang.wav");

the getResourceAsString(....) returns a null so the next line (line 1337) it hit with NullPointerException

This is a jpg of my resource tree structure

[Maneesh Godbole]

        File file = new File(this.getClass().getResource("Resources.Bang.wav"));  

Is the file really called resources.bang.wav ? Or is the file situated under resources/bang.wav?

[Dave Elwood]

It is this : resources/bang.wav

Here is the real file tree structure....under the folder resources is bang.wav

[Rob Spoor]

Dave Elwood wrote:It is this : resources/bang.wav

So use Resources/Bang.wav, not Resources.Bang.wav.

[Maneesh Godbole]

Dave Elwood wrote:It is this : resources/bang.wav

What I meant to hint to you was check your code. Are you trying to load the same file in the code?
Do you think Resources.bang.wav and resources/bang.wav are the same?

[Dave Elwood]

Do you think Resources.bang.wav and resources/bang.wav are the same?

which one of you told me this? :

First create a new Java package like com.dave.elwood.resource.sounds within your main project. Then just copy/paste 'abc.wav' file into that new package.

it works :
InputStream in = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("../Resources/Bang.wav");

Thanks guys.