Hi. I want to know if there is a better more OOP way of loading images in an applet. So far the only way I know how to load images in an applet is to do the following

In the Applet class,

URL base = getDocumentBase();
Image img = getImage(base,"blah.gif");

getImage is a member function of the Applet class. I want other classes to be able to load images as well. I don't want to extend all my other classes as applets and I don't want to pass an applet reference around to my classes either as this seems rather cumbersome and will become quite convoluted. Is there a better way of doing it? Thanks in advance!