How to load and use images in applets?

Question

I've been going at it for 2 days now and I can't find a way how to load images properly. The applet is going to be run locally on a different computer, and it's not in a jar file (for one previous applet, for the same project, I've only used the .class files and used THEM in directly in the HTML source code). My questions is: how do you load and use images which have a relative path (possibly next to the .class files) ? Here's part of my code

try {
    image = null;
    InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream( new FileInputStream( System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\toshiba.jpeg" )); 
    image = ImageIO.read(is); 
    image = image.getScaledInstance(400,200,Image.SCALE_SMOOTH); 
} 
catch (IOException e) {} 
Icon ic = new ImageIcon(image);

Answer 1

@RoxasShadow Try to use getDocumentBase().
@Nick992 tried it and it returns null, I think I've read somewhere that you can use that only with applets that are accessed on remote websites and not locally.

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import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.*;

// <applet code=WhereAmIApplet width=500 height=50></applet>
public class WhereAmIApplet extends JApplet {

    @Override
    public void init() {
        setLayout(new GridLayout(0,1,5,5));
        add(new JLabel("Document Base: " + getDocumentBase()));
        add(new JLabel("Code Base: " + getCodeBase()));
    }
}

Answer 2

Try to use getDocumentBase(). It returns the path of the folder where the applet is stored.