ImageIcon loads no image

Question

I'm trying to get image built from tiled set of images So to JPanel I'm adding JButtons with ImageIcons. All images are in folder with my classes (NetBeans), and they're named u1, u2, ..., u16. But on button there is no image shown. What am I doing wrong ?

   JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(4, 4, 3, 3)); 
   for (int i = 1; i < 17; i++) {
        JLabel l = new JLabel(new ImageIcon("u"+i+".jpg"), JLabel.CENTER);
        l.setBorder(BorderFactory.createBevelBorder(BevelBorder.RAISED));
        panel.add(l);
    }

Answer 1

NetBeans is probably not finding your image files. To test this, use the full name of the files (from the C:/path/to/image.jpg if you are in Windows, and from the /path/to/image.jpg if you are under something unix-like).

I recommend using

new ImageIcon(this.getClass().getResource(fileName));

where fileName for something available at "classes/org/myorg/resources/image.jpg" should look like org/myorg/resources/image.jpg. This has the advantage that it will work regardless of the way you access your classes (through HTTP, in a jar-file, ...).