[mousecatcher]

First of all, let me say how awful the BB JDE IDE is, and to make it worse, how poorly documented it is. SHAME ON RIM. I do like the simulator and debugging though.

Now then, how do I get arbitrary files added to the .jar (and then i presume, the .cod)? There are two types of files I wanted added.

1) a messages.properties file which contains translations. this comes from the netbeans localization support for MIDP applications. (stupid filename but whatever)
2) some .png images.

They are of course shown in the list of files in the workspace pane.

I've ticked them as "dependency only, do not build", just because hunting around it seemed like that might be what I needed. Apparently, that doesn't do it, or at least is not enough.

Also, i chose one of the png's as "use as application icon" but i still just get a generic icon. Note that this is the only image that makes it into the .jar. On a side note, right-click->"view" on my .png files doesn't do anything. At least an error message would be nice.

[mousecatcher]

UNCHECKING "dependency only" gets my messages.properties saved into the .jar. I would have sworn that wasn't the case before. But anyway, now that it is in the .jar, when my app runs, I still get an exception about not being able to open that file. How can I inspect a .cod to see if it made it there?

[richard.puckett]

How are you reading the file in? I did something similar just now and it worked fine...

o Right-click project
o Add File to Project...
o Select file
o Build, etc...

DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/messages.properties"));


As far as the COD format, the best resource I've seen so far is this:

reverse-engineering « Reverse & ФорÑ�аж

[mousecatcher]

that's exactly what i'm doing. i'll note that the message in the debug window (FRIDG: could not find blah blah) doesn't have the leading '/' on the filename.

[mousecatcher]

UGH. If I comment all the getResourceAsStream() stuff out, I still get the FRIDG errors (and ultimate app failure). WTF.