Basic HTML version of Foils prepared Sept 21 1998

Foil 18 Getting Images Downloaded

From Java Tutorial 98- 3: Graphics and the Abstract Windowing Toolkit NAVO Tutorial -- Sept 23 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
The Applet class provides a method getImage, which retrieves an image from a web server and creates an instance of the Image class.
Image img =
  • getImage(new URL("http://www.tc.com/image.gif"));
Another form of getImage retrieves the image file relative to the directory of the HTML or the directory of the java code.
  • Image img = getImage(getDocumentBase(), "images/image.gif");
  • Image img = getImage(getCodeBase(), "images/image.gif");

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