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"); |