Adding JTable on an image..............??help need.....edited

Question

i am using JFame
on JFrame i hav added JTabbedpane....
on one of the tab i hav added image on whole background....
on that tab i hav added JTable....
but when i add JTable on that tab .....instead of adding table on that image...it add image on background with no image
that no color part shoud be covered with part of image added on a tab
and also i want to position (x,y) of JTable on tab.....
so i hav used gridLayout so that it looks better....but that not i want.....
here is the code.... check search tab
//project.java
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
class tdsgui{
JFrame f,pass;
JTabbedPane jtp = new JTabbedPane();
JApplet obj=new JApplet();
JMenuBar mb=new JMenuBar();
public tdsgui(){
f=new JFrame("TELEPHONE DIRECTORY SYSTEM");
JMenu m1=new JMenu("File");
JMenu m2=new JMenu("About");
JMenu m3=new JMenu("Help");
mb.add(m1);
mb.add(m2);
mb.add(m3);
JMenuItem mi1=new JMenuItem("Save");
JMenuItem mi2=new JMenuItem("Exit");
JMenuItem mi3=new JMenuItem("save as");
mi3.setVisible(true);
m1.add(mi1);
m1.add(mi3);
m1.add(mi2);
public void launch(){
jtp.addTab(" REGISTRATION ",new registerpanel());
jtp.addTab(" MODIFY ",new updatepanel());
jtp.addTab(" SEARCH ", new searchpanel());
f.add(mb);
f.setJMenuBar(mb);
f.add(jtp);
f.setSize(500,600);
f.setVisible(true);
public class project{
public static void main(String args[]){
tdsgui next=new tdsgui();
next.launch();
class registerpanel extends JPanel{
public registerpanel(){
class updatepanel extends JPanel{
public updatepanel(){
class searchpanel extends JPanel{
public searchpanel(){
Icon icon = new ImageIcon("Sunset.jpg");
JLabel label = new JLabel(icon);
add(label);
this.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,0));
final String[] colHeads = { "Name", "Phone", "Fax" };
final String[][] data = {
{ "Gail", "4567", "8675" },
{ "Ken", "7566", "5555" },
{ "Viviane", "5634", "5887" },
{ "Melanie", "7345", "9222" },
{ "Anne", "1237", "3333" },
{ "John", "5656", "3144" }
// Create the table
JTable table = new JTable(data, colHeads);
JTableHeader header = table.getTableHeader();
table.setRowHeight(20);
TableColumn column = table.getColumnModel().getColumn(0);
table.setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
table.getTableHeader().setPreferredSize(new Dimension(0,30));
table.setFont(new Font("Dialog", Font.BOLD, 15));
table.setBackground(Color.green);
header.setFont(new Font("Courier",Font.BOLD,25));
header.setBackground(Color.yellow);
//label.add(table,BorderLayout.CENTER);
// Add table to a scroll pane
int v = ScrollPaneConstants.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED;
int h = ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED;
JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(table, v, h);
// Add scroll pane to the content pane
this.add(jsp, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
add image i ur system....make changes on searchpanel class
thanks in advance...

Answer 1

on one of the tab i hav added image on whole background....no you haven't - you've added a JLabel to a GridLayout JPanel
I have no idea what you're really trying to do, but here's a tab with image background and transparent table (except for the header)
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
class tdsgui{
JFrame f;
JTabbedPane jtp = new JTabbedPane();
public tdsgui(){
f=new JFrame("TELEPHONE DIRECTORY SYSTEM");
public void launch(){
jtp.addTab(" REGISTRATION ",new registerpanel());
jtp.addTab(" MODIFY ",new updatepanel());
jtp.addTab(" SEARCH ", new searchpanel());
f.add(jtp);
f.setSize(500,600);
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
f.setVisible(true);
class project{
public static void main(String args[]){
tdsgui next=new tdsgui();
next.launch();
class registerpanel extends JPanel{
public registerpanel(){
class updatepanel extends JPanel{
public updatepanel(){
class searchpanel extends JPanel{
Image img;
public searchpanel(){
try{img = javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(new java.net.URL(getClass().getResource("Test.gif"), "Test.gif"));}
catch(Exception e){}//do nothing - handled in paintComponent
this.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,0));
final String[] colHeads = { "Name", "Phone", "Fax" };
final String[][] data = {
{ "Gail", "4567", "8675" },
{ "Ken", "7566", "5555" },
{ "Viviane", "5634", "5887" },
{ "Melanie", "7345", "9222" },
{ "Anne", "1237", "3333" },
{ "John", "5656", "3144" }
JTable table = new JTable(data, colHeads);
table.setOpaque(false);
table.setBackground(new Color(0,0,0,0));
JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(table);
jsp.setOpaque(false);
jsp.getViewport().setOpaque(false);
this.add(jsp);
public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
super.paintComponent(g);
if(img != null) g.drawImage(img,0,0,this.getWidth(), this.getHeight(),this);
}