Intellij resources not embedded artifact

Question

I am trying to create a .jar that contains non-standard images and fonts that I added to the resource folder in my project. I can upload them to my project with the following code.

URL url = ClassLoader.getSystemResource("./some_font.ttf"); Font font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, url.openStream()); 

While this works, when I run the program in the IDE, when the jar is exported, it cannot load the font.

Answer 1

You can create your artifacts in the project structure:

There you can add the contents of the directory to the resource folder. Click the green plus and go to your folder and add it. Then you can click build-> build artifacts -> build. In my case, the jar is created in the folder. / Out / artifacts.

Answer 2

Intellij treats folders marked as "resources" as additional class directories that can be detected using native autofill or in your startup / debugging function. Try right-clicking on this folder and selecting Mark Directory As> Unmark Resources to check this assumption. If it stops working, you need to provide a more reliable path, taking into account where this file is located inside the resulting jar file.