Opening Files in Java

[Blaze]

Why hello there young people :D

Uhm, i have a question (yeah i know you guys think its the only reason why i come here nowadays).

Thing is, i want to to open a chm file through java, i can open the file. But only if i give it a "full" dir, i want to know of a way to open the file if it's in the same directory as the classes, and will be in the same directory as the *.jar file. I don't want to go through the trouble of finding the actual file's dir to know where it is, something like "..\file.chm" :P

Any help appreciated, thanks a lot in advance. :D

[LCurtis]

import java.io.File;

public class Test1
 {
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		File file = new File("test.txt");
		System.out.println(file.exists());
	}

}

When I run this (note the file path) it works just fine. However, when I tried to run it using eclipse it was printing out false. But when I ran it through console, it prints true. So you might just be having trouble because of your IDE.

[Blaze]

Well, actually i have to use the Netbeans IDE. And i'm working with forms and all... but thing is, i ran it and it does open the help file. :D Thanks a lot sir ^_^

[everyoneloves345]

At 5/11/08 04:16 PM, Blaze wrote: Well, actually i have to use the Netbeans IDE. And i'm working with forms and all... but thing is, i ran it and it does open the help file. :D Thanks a lot sir ^_^

lol nice, I enjoyed that ^^