Image class and paths relative to classpath

[Werner Lehmann]

Martin,

I have to admit that I did not really understand Richards two different 
notions of "relative paths" in RT-18291.

Correct me if I am wrong but today FXML seems to support relative paths 
only. For instance, if I have a shared image resource "warning.png" in 
the root of the classpath, I have to specify it like 
"../../../../warning.png" in the FXML, depending on which package the 
FXML is in.

For shared resources (which are not local to the FXML) I'd like to be 
able to use "/warning.png" as absolute path. That would also work after 
moving the FXML to a different package.

So, if that or a similar way would become possible in FXML, I am all for it.

Rgds
Werner

On 23.04.2012 16:58, Martin Sladecek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> JIRA: http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-18291
>
> this JIRA request is about adding support for "URL" in Image constructor
> that is interpreted as a classpath-relative path when a leading slash is
> present.
> However, this is currently interpreted as absolute file URL.
>
> In order not to break current behaviour I propose to introduce new set
> of static factory methods.
>
> Image.fromClassPath(String path, double requestedWidth, double
> requestedHeight, boolean preserveRatio, boolean smooth, boolean
> backgroundLoading);
>
> + overloaded method similar to Image constructors.
>
> The idea is to interpret paths with leading slash as absolute to the
> classpath root (basically the same as
> Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(path) ),
> while relative paths might be interpreted as relative to the caller
> class. So Image.fromClassPath("duke.jpg") called from
> myapplication.Application will look for the file in myapplication package.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Martin