Thanks, Sean!

I rebuilt the project under Eclipse, this time choosing to put the .class 
files in the same directory as the .java files and it came up fine.

Cheers,
David


>From: Sean Luke <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: ECJ Evolutionary Computation Toolkit              
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>Subject: Re: running the Console (from within Eclipse)
>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:47:09 -0500
>
>ECJ expects certain image files to be located next to the class file  which 
>is loading them.  Most likely you've set up Eclipse to move the  class 
>files to a separate build directory, leaving the image files  behind.  You 
>can fix this by either:
>
>	- getting Eclipse to leave the class files right next to the java  files 
>(and image files)
>	- modifying the GUI code to look for the images somewhere else
>	- deleting the GUI code (just delete the 'display' directory)
>
>Sean
>
>On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:28 PM, David vun Kannon wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've just started with ECJ, and I'm trying work through the  tutorials. 
>>Working within the Eclipse framework, I can get the  tutorials to run 
>>fine, but trying the Console I got this:
>>
>>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>>	at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<init>(Unknown Source)
>>	at ec.display.Console.getPlayButton(Console.java:181)
>>	at ec.display.Console.getJToolBar(Console.java:163)
>>	at ec.display.Console.getJContentPane(Console.java:525)
>>	at ec.display.Console.initialize(Console.java:508)
>>	at ec.display.Console.<init>(Console.java:96)
>>	at ec.display.Console.main(Console.java:494)
>>
>>Did I not grab everything I was supposed to when I downloaded ECJ 16?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>David vun Kannon