Loading skins in bananas 1.3?

Not sure whether you're talking about skins or other resources, so I'll cover them both.

Skins

I'm using them successfully in the new Stock Viewer app. Here's the relevant code snippet:

Code:

 public static final String SKIN_FILENAME = "images" + File.separator + "skin-charcoal.zip";
...
setSkin(new BZipSkin(this, SKIN_FILENAME));

I took all of the files in the Bananas toolkit under samples\skin-charcoal and created a file called "skin-charcoal.zip". I placed it in the root of my application directory under images\skin-charcoal.zip and everything works peachy.

You should be able to replace each of the individual files (the .png files) with your own graphics, keeping the same name.

Other Resources

This is one other trick I've learned: to avoid path problems with creating resources out of images, put them in your source package. For example, my root package is com.bitrazor.stock, so I put any images I want to create resources out of into com\bitrazor\stock. The easiest way to do this is just to drag and drop them on your package in Eclipse or NetBeans and it'll put them in the right place.

I prefer this method because then you don't have to worry about the images being in a different location during development vs. release, etc. For example, here's a code snippet that shows creating a resource out of an image:

Code:

public static final String tickerRowIcon = "yellow14.png";
BView icon = new BView(theParent, 10, 7, 14, 14, false);
icon.setResource(tickerRowIcon);

Notice that "yellow14.png" is in the packge -- here's the screenshot from NetBeans:



Hope this helps -- Dave