Thread: Java Image path question.

I almost deleted this because I thought it was spam. Please post an MCVE instead of asking us to go to external websites.

If you're asking how to load resources from a jar, then googling "java load resource from jar" returns a bunch of results that explain it much better than a forum post can. But the gist is this: stuff inside a jar is no longer a file, so it can't be accessed by the File class. You have to load it as a resource instead using the getResource... methods.

I see, but I have another question.

What I am creating is a clock. That goes round n round using "getcalendar".
It's realtime, but the clock has a constant resolution of 800x800.
I have carefully placed numbers from 1-12 on the clock using that resolution placing them pixel by pixel.
Now if I resize the window, the clock resizes but the text, it fades away out of the screen because the resolution is too small.

This is how I draw them.

g2.drawString(six, 380, 750);
g2.drawString(twelve, 375, 70);
g2.drawString(nine, 30, 415);
g2.drawString(three, 725, 415);
g2.drawString(one, 570, 120);
g2.drawString(two, 690, 250);
g2.drawString(four, 685, 575);
g2.drawString(five, 570, 700);
g2.drawString(seven, 200, 710);
g2.drawString(eight, 80, 585);
g2.drawString(ten, 80, 235);
g2.drawString(eleven, 205, 115);

I understand why this is happening, obviously because the strings are in a certain place just can't understand how do I make them scaleable?
How were I to solve the problem? Is there an universal formula? Or do I have to draw every string relevant to some mathematical equation regarding to the screen size. For example : g2.drawString(twelve, diameter / 2, screenheight / 3);
It might be hard to understand without pictures, what you guys are afraid to click on for some reason.

There isn't a magical formula. You have three options:

1- Use a layout that does the scaling for you, and use JLabels instead of custom painting. It would probably be a mix of a few different layouts.
2- Use the getWidth() and getHeight() methods to draw the Strings at a position relative to the size of the component.
3- Create a single image that contains all of the numbers and then just scale that to whatever size you want.