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I'm trying to add a constructor to the javax.swing.ImageIcon . It shall resolve the directory structure to be able to access the ImageIcon class like a image map.

What I'm trying to do is:

public class CPImageIcon extends ImageIcon {
    public CPImageIcon(String name) {
        super(this.getClass().getResource("/desktopapplication1/resources/" + name), "description");
but this leads to:
warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.7
I:\DesktopApplication1\src\desktopapplication1\CPImageIcon.java:18: error: cannot reference this before supertype constructor has been called
        super(this.getClass().getResource("/desktopapplication1/resources/" + name),"");
If I try to super other constructors it works.
                Do you really need to extend ImageIcon? Could you not just use a factory method to construct an instance of ImageIcon directly?
– Andy Turner
                May 28, 2020 at 10:46
super constructor must be the first call in subclasses constructors.
If ommitted it will call automatically to default constructor super().
this represent the current instance, and can't be used before calling super.
You could use the following approach, commented or uncommented:
import javax.swing.*;
public class CPImageIcon extends ImageIcon {
    public CPImageIcon(String name) {
        super(CPImageIcon.class.getResource("/desktopapplication1/resources/" + name), "description");
//        super(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("/desktopapplication1/resources/" + name), "description");
        
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