title: JavaFX Image getting image path
body: <p>I have following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package imagebrowser;
  
  import java.io.File;
  import javafx.application.Application;
  import javafx.scene.Scene;
  import javafx.scene.image.Image;
  import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
  import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
  import javafx.stage.Stage;
  
  /**
   *
   * @author Dess
   */
  public class ImageBrowser extends Application {
      Image[] images;
      ImageView[] imagesView;
  
  @Override
  public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
  
  
      StackPane root = new StackPane();
  
      Scene scene = new Scene(root, 600, 450);
  
      int j = 0;
  
      String path = "C://imbr/";
      String files;
      File folder = new File(path);
      File[] listOfFiles = folder.listFiles();
  
      for (int i = 0; i &lt; listOfFiles.length; i++) {
          if (listOfFiles[i].getName().endsWith("jpg") || listOfFiles[i].getName().endsWith("JPG")) {
              System.out.println(listOfFiles[i].getAbsolutePath());
  
              files = "file:" + listOfFiles[i].getAbsolutePath();
              System.out.println(files);
  
              images[j] = new Image(files, 200, 200, true, true);
              imagesView[j] = new ImageView();
              imagesView[j].setImage(images[j]);
              j++;
  
          }
      }
  
      primaryStage.setTitle("Przegladarka Obrazkow");
      primaryStage.setScene(scene);
      for(int i = 0; i &lt; imagesView.length; i++){
      root.getChildren().add(imagesView[i]);
      }
      primaryStage.show();
  
  }
  
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      launch(args);
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>
  
  <p>which does not work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>   Executing com.javafx.main.Main from C:\Users\Dess\Documents\NetBeansProjects\ImageBrowser\dist\run1928942616\ImageBrowser.jar using platform C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_17/bin/java
  C:\imbr\1.jpg
  file:C:\imbr\1.jpg
  Exception in Application start method
  java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
      at com.javafx.main.Main.launchApp(Main.java:642)
      at com.javafx.main.Main.main(Main.java:805)
  Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in Application start method
      at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:403)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.access$000(LauncherImpl.java:47)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$1.run(LauncherImpl.java:115)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
  Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
      at imagebrowser.ImageBrowser.start(ImageBrowser.java:49)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$5.run(LauncherImpl.java:319)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$5.run(PlatformImpl.java:215)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4$1.run(PlatformImpl.java:179)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4$1.run(PlatformImpl.java:176)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4.run(PlatformImpl.java:176)
      at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
      at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.access$100(WinApplication.java:29)
      at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication$3$1.run(WinApplication.java:73)
      ... 1 more
  Java Result: 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know it has something to do with path of the image file, but I have no idea why.
  I have found examples on sites with this way of determining the path and it worked...
  I would apreciate some help^^</p>