alright, so apparently eclipse uses the project's root folder as the working directory by default, so I made the path local to that and it worked. Many thanks.

Oh, and I'm making Pong.

edit:...

Hmm... apparently Java isn't recognizing the file. But the file is in the same directory as the .java file.

$ ls ~/workspace/Pong/src/
Ball.java KeyboardListener.java Main.java Paddle.java ...

Sorry about the lines, here's the original file:

import java.awt.*;

public abstract class Sprite
{
private Image m_image;
private Point m_position;

public Sprite(int x, int y)

I'm trying to load a bitmap into an Image object using the following code:

System.out.println("Point A");
System.out.println("Point B");
m_image =...

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