possible to use image resource from classpath?

I need a logo in a couple of reports and I rather not embed it in the .rptdesign file. In the image dialog I have four options:

URI
Image file in shared resources
Embedded image
Dynamic image

I would like to get the image from classpath. I just tried Image file in shared resource, but I'm struggling how to use that correctly with a relative path that works in a deployed webapp. URI says something about web in the tooltip so that doesn't seem to be it either.

Do I need to do dynamic image and insert it runtime? I guess the problem with using a relative file location is that it probably wouldn't work design time, but that doesn't matter too much to me?

Thanks,
Viktor

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JasonW

Take a look at this post. Specifically on using the image from a resource folder.
http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/birt-image-report-item.html

Jason

hedefalk

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'JasonW'" data-cid="85064" data-time="1320782300" data-date="08 November 2011 - 12:58 PM">
Take a look at this post. Specifically on using the image from a resource folder. 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/birt-image-report-item.html'>http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/birt-image-report-item.html</a> 
 
Jason </blockquote>
 
 
Thanks, Jason! 
 
Unfortunately I couldn't figure it out by that resource alone. However, I found this thread: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/362386/'>http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/362386/</a> 
 
and by that I figured I could set my resource folder to target/classes (which is standard output for both src/main/resource and classes in Maven. That will be the root of the classes in the webapp when running it in a container so then I could do: 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>engineConfig.setResourcePath(this.getClass.getResource("/").getPath())</pre>
 
and the relative path for design and runtime will be the same. 
 
Thanks, 
Viktor

JasonW

That should work fine, but I am curious why this did not work for you:
var jarfile = reportContext.getResource("birtimages.jar");myfulljarimage = "jar:"+jarfile.toString()+"!/green.png";myfulljarimage;

Jason

hedefalk

Well, i didn't try that one?

First off I don't have any jar for the images. These are images reused for both my webapp and the report. So they're in my classpath together with the classes in WEB-INF/classes inside my war.

Second I'm not that comfortable doing too much in js together with things like jars, so I rather just enter a path in the design view pointing to my images on classpath.

Thanks,
Viktor

JasonW

Sounds good.

Jason