Re: How do I write an ImageIcon object into a file on my computer?

From:

"Thomas Fritsch" <i.dont.like.spam@invalid.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help,comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:17:39 +0100

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<phillip.s.powell@gmail.com> wrote:

I hope this makes it more clear:

*update* still fails, can't fix it this time..

Here are my methods

public static void toFile(File file, Object contents) throws
IOException {
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);

I assume you got the Exception in the line above.
(Unfortunately you missed to post the complete exception stack trace)

       out.write(contents.toString().getBytes());
   }

   public static void toFile(String filePath, Object contents) throws
IOException {
       File file = new File(filePath);
       toFile(file, contents);
   }
}

I get this exception thrown:

file:\C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\me\stave.ico (The filename,
directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect)

The exception says it all: You try to open a file in directory
     file:\C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\me
which, of course, doesn't exist.
What you really want to do, is to open a file in directory
    C:\Documents and Settings\me
I.e. you have to use
    C:\Documents and Settings\me\stave.ico
as filePath in your code above.

I have no idea what to do. All I want to do is create an icon at
C:/Documents and Settings/me called "stave.ico" with the contents
spawned within ImageIcon icon.

Don't confuse URL strings like
file:\C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\me\stave.ico
with real Windows file paths like
C:\Documents and Settings\me\stave.ico

--
Thomas

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