imageview cannot find the image file

[tired pendant]

Hi, im working with a game project and I need to set the guy's avatar in a small imageview, the dimensions apart, the image doesn't even load..

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<@&987246487241105418> please have a look, thanks.

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[tired pendant]

if someone answers I will send the code

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that's not how things work, you first give detail, then someone answers

[tired pendant]

yeah.. that's what happened before, but none answered anyways

anyways

so basically

I put all my data in a json file

like this:

if (file.exists()) {
                String imagePath = getClass().getResource(profileData.getAvatar()).toExternalForm();
                Image image = new Image(imagePath);
                System.out.println("Image loaded from: " + imagePath);
                if (image != null) {
                    picc.setImage(image);
                } else {
                    System.out.println("Image could not be loaded.");
                }
            }

[fringe viper]

image can't be null

[tired pendant]

ik but

this is the json

{
      "nickname": "de",
      "avatar": "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\Pictures\\Roblox\\RobloxScreenShot20230701_234606681.png",
      "partiteGiocate": 0,
      "partiteVinte": 0,
      "partitePerse": 0,
      "livello": 0,
      "password": "dee"
    },

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[tired pendant]

so

[fringe viper]

if you know, why do you test if it is null ?

[tired pendant]

the issue might be this "\\"

[tired pendant]

because it might be sometimes

just for debugging

[fringe viper]

no, it's impossible

it cannot be null

[tired pendant]

why

[fringe viper]

because new keyword will never return null

[tired pendant]

ah

alr, imma change that soon

but

the issue lays afterward

lemme show u

I mean before

because, once the image is set

it will be like this:

if (selectedFile != null) {
            Image selectedImage = new Image(selectedFile.toURI().toString());

            // Get the name of the selected file
            String filePath = selectedFile.getPath().toString();
            filePath = filePath.replace("/", "\\");
            System.out.println("Selected file name: " + filePath);
            Avatar.setText(filePath);
            profiloplayer.getInstance().getProfilo().setAvatar(filePath);
            profiloplayer.getInstance().getProfileManager().saveToJson();
        } else {
            Avatar.setText("No Image Selected");
        }

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[tired pendant]

then this comes afterwards, because its in the iniziale method

[tired pendant]

so essentially the issue could be this:

String imagePath = getClass().getResource(profileData.getAvatar()).toExternalForm();

because every time thats where the program stops working

meaning that the file path is wrong

[fringe viper]

also

getClass().getResource(profileData.getAvatar()).toExternalForm()
This won't work if you use a jar

[tired pendant]

which jar?

[fringe viper]

filePath = filePath.replace("/", "\");
This is system dependent, please don't do that

[fringe viper]

your app jar, if you build your app in a jar, it will break

[tired pendant]

its fine, it has to be .zip

but

[tired pendant]

couldn't it be that the program searches for the path with \ but finds the path with //?

[fringe viper]

I don't know what you are trying to do here but don't do that please

[fringe viper]

show the path you are using and the place where your image is

[tired pendant]

ok so

the user selects an image

[fringe viper]

I am talking about how you build it

[tired pendant]

I get the absolute path

[tired pendant]

wym

[fringe viper]

in order to run your program, you have to build it, to compile it

[fringe viper]

example ?

[tired pendant]

I put the absolute path in the json file like here and then I use that same path for the img

[tired pendant]

ah well

it does build

[fringe viper]

yes

[tired pendant]

but it could be since its a jar

I mean its a .java

[fringe viper]

there are two ways to build your program, either into a folder, or into a jar, if it's into a jar, your approach breaks

[tired pendant]

oh then its fine, its within a folder

anyways

lemme show u the program a bit deeply

[fringe viper]

I am not talking about the .java files

I am talking about how your compile it

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so ?

[tired pendant]

about the file?

[fringe viper]

yes

show an example

[tired pendant]

yeah thats the path here

[fringe viper]

it can't work

you can only use things that are in resources folder with Class.getResource

[tired pendant]

ah..

isnt there a way to get files outside

[fringe viper]

it wouldn't make sense otherwise

[fringe viper]

not with getResource, it wouldn't make any sense, why are you trying to do that ?

[tired pendant]

I messed up

whats the other way?

[fringe viper]

io

but please answer me

why ?

why are you files not in resources ?

[tired pendant]

because the user might want to get his image somewhere

[fringe viper]

but the user won't fill this json right ?

[tired pendant]

no

[fringe viper]

so how do you get the path of the user ?

from a gui ?

[tired pendant]

its kinda like when u send an image from discord

I made a little window where you can select yoru files

[fringe viper]

right

[tired pendant]

aka the file chooser class

[fringe viper]

then yes, using getResource here doesn't make sense

getResource is if you want to get programresources, things that you build and ship with your program

[tired pendant]

so in order to set the image into an imageview while having the absolutepath I have to use Io?

[fringe viper]

here you want to use io

[tired pendant]

so I just create a file with the path and give it to the Image object?

[fringe viper]

what is the class of this Image ? java.awt.Image ?

[tired pendant]

javafx.scene.image.Image;

[tired pendant]

file object*

[fringe viper]

just pass in the path the user is giving you

[tired pendant]

oh

lemme see

it works letss go, thks man

[fringe viper]

@tired pendant also how did you coded the gui to ask the user an image to use ?

[tired pendant]

because its like the preffered avatar

[fringe viper]

I asked "how", not "why"

[tired pendant]

because the gui is about your profile

so you can insert

all the data

while the rest is entered by the game

[fringe viper]

please answer my question

how did you coded the gui to ask the user an image to use ?

[tired pendant]

ahh I misred

[tired pendant]

just created the profile gui and used the file chooser thing

[fringe viper]

ah right thank you

[tired pendant]

np