Java - A program that displays 4 images. I can get this to work with the URLs on

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Java - A program that displays 4 images. I can get this to work with the URLs online, but when I using my file, the images turn up blank. My code has one part with a file and three with URLs.

package exercise1;

import javafx.scene.image.Image;

import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;

import javafx.application.Application;

import javafx.geometry.Insets;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Scene;

import javafx.scene.layout.GridPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class DisplayImages extends Application {
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage)
{
  GridPane pane = new GridPane();
  pane.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER);
  pane.setPadding(new Insets(11, 12, 13, 14));
  pane.setHgap(5);
  pane.setVgap(5);
  
  //Add image nodes
  Image canada = new Image("file:image/canada.bmp");
  ImageView canadaView = new ImageView(canada);
  
  pane.add(canadaView, 1, 1);
  
  Image uk = new Image("http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-62PQ6EWMfBk/TcG3u-jRR3I/AAAAAAAAAfA/EUyVonvxG0E/s1600/British+Flag+Wallpapers+%25281%2529.png");
  ImageView ukView = new ImageView(uk);
  ukView.setFitHeight(50);
  ukView.setFitWidth(75);
  pane.add(ukView, 1, 2);
  
  Image china = new Image("http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UzuUsSjP9bQ/Ta5ERQOoOAI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/_653LZlNx0k/s1600/Flag_of_China.png");
  ImageView chinaView = new ImageView(china);
  chinaView.setFitHeight(50);
  chinaView.setFitWidth(75);
  pane.add(chinaView, 2, 1);
  
  Image us = new Image("http://rapidfirebunker.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/american-flag2.jpg");
  ImageView usView = new ImageView(us);
  usView.setFitHeight(50);
  usView.setFitWidth(75);
  pane.add(usView, 2, 2);
  
  Scene scene = new Scene(pane);
  primaryStage.setTitle("DisplayImages");
  primaryStage.setScene(scene);
  primaryStage.show();
  
  
}

}

Explanation / Answer

Image class constructor takes URL of file not a file system path. In order to use your local file, u will need to load that from the same place as your classes are loaded e:g jar file in your final deployment.

A very good alternative is to use hetResource() on ur local file

Try using

Image canada = new Image(getClass().getResourceAsStream("image/canada.bmp"));

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