Loading files into an applet

[RylandAlmanza]

So, I need to load some text files into my applet. This is the function I have to read a file into a string:

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File file = new File(location);         StringBuffer contents = new StringBuffer();         BufferedReader reader = null;         try {             reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));             String text = null;             // repeat until all lines is read             while ((text = reader.readLine()) != null) {                 contents.append(text+"\n");             }         } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {             e.printStackTrace();         } catch (IOException e) {             e.printStackTrace();         } finally {             try {                 if (reader != null) {                     reader.close();                 }             } catch (IOException e) {                 e.printStackTrace();             }         }

This worked fine in eclipse, but I just switched to Intellij IDEA, and now I get this:

1	java.io.FileNotFoundException: oryx.vcol (The system cannot find the file specified)

I think it might be because it's an applet. How should I read a file into a string with an applet?

[ra4king]

Is the file inside a JAR?

This code is completely irrelevant since you don't show how you got the location

[RylandAlmanza]

The file isn't inside a jar. location is a String which, in this case, is "oryx.vcol" The oryx.vcol file is stored in the projectroot/assets, which is set as a source folder so that the files in assets go to the output directory.

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[ra4king]

Hmmm, creating a test case, I get an AccessDenied when using a relative path like that.

I normally never use File, I prefer just getting a direct InputStream:

1	BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("oryx.vcol"),"UTF-8"));