ImageIO and .exists can't find file.

[Nickalos Klemer]

    public static Bitmap font = loadBitmap("/img/font.png", 1);
    public static Bitmap SideLine = loadBitmap("/img/SL.png",1);
    public static Bitmap UpperLine = loadBitmap("/img/UL.png", 1);


    public static Bitmap loadBitmap(String fileName, int o1) {
        try {
            boolean exists = (new File("filename")).exists();
            if (exists) {
                if (Settings.DebugLVL >= 3) System.out.println("PDB.class - File " + fileName + " found.");
                BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(PDB.class.getResource(fileName));
                int w = img.getWidth();
                int h = img.getHeight();
                Bitmap result = new Bitmap(w, h);
                img.getRGB(0, 0, w, h, result.pixels, 0, w);
                if (o1 == 1) for (int i = 0; i < result.pixels.length; i++) {
                    int in = result.pixels[i];
                    int col = (in & 0xf) >> 2;
                    if (in == 0xffff00ff) col = -1;
                    result.pixels[i] = col;
                }
                if (o1 == 0) for (int i = 0; i < result.pixels.length; i++) {
                    int in = result.pixels[i];
                    int col = (in);
                    if (in == 0xffff00ff) col = -1;
                    result.pixels[i] = col;
                }
                return result;
                }
                else {
                    if (Settings.DebugLVL >= 3) System.out.println("PDB.class - File " + fileName + " not found.");
                    return null;
                }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

Is there any way to check exactly where in the system it's trying to load the image from?
I am using Iltellij if it matters.


My problem is that when I compile and run the whole thing, even though the file(s) it tries to load does exists, the program can't seem to find it.

[Tim Moores]

Do you really want to access a file named "filename" (and not the one specified by the filename parameter passed into the method)?

[Nickalos Klemer]

Tim Moores wrote:Do you really want to access a file named "filename" (and not the one specified by the filename parameter passed into the method)?

Oh, oops.
Even after I fixed "boolean exists = (new File(fileName)).exists();" the problem still persists.
The reason I put that exists thing up anyway was to try to narrow down this problem.

[Tim Moores]

ImageIO.read(PDB.class.getResource(fileName))

This looks odd. Why are you using the resource loading mechanism instead of "ImageIO.read(fileName)"? That would cause the file to be searched for at a different location than what the file name specifies.

Also make sure that the account running this code has read access to all (intermediate) directories and files.