Re: Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way

I find the phenomenon of topic drift curious. There seems to be a
recurrent pattern in this group in which a person creates an initial
topic of some Java related sort or another and the topic quickly drifts
to criticism and "bashing" of the person that started the thread.

This does nothing to encourage people to seek information here.

Perhaps some people need to leave their egos at home when they visit?

Re: the most recent round of (universally hostile-toned) replies, I'd
already mentioned that bundling stuff in a jar is not a complication I
wish to handle just yet. Particularly as it means the app has to look
for resources in two places: in a jar with the app (where they'd be
when the app's been packaged and installed somewhere) and in my
computer's specific directory structure somewhere (where they'd be
during development). Someone mentioned putting them along the class
path and their being found automatically if they're there or in a jar
with the app; but then I need to set my class path on my development
machine to include the source directory for every project that has
resources, don't I? Ouch. Or I can track down, download, study, and use
a new build tool (when Eclipse has been serving me well so far)...it
sounds to me like if I'd gone that route I'd still be fiddling with
something merely preliminary to getting the icon to work *now*, around
48 hours later. When there's a lot more resources, and
optional/switchable ones like internationalization resources, then that
looks like a wise investment of time; when there's only the one little
32x32 gif, it seems more like a *waste* of time.

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