Animate 2 images on the click of a button

Question

I'm working on a script to display a short animation once the user has clicked a button; however I currently have the following error;
Cannot find method; animateTransform()
All I need is for plate1 to move South East whilst plate2 is moving North West for only a matter of seconds.
I've never worked with animation in Java so apologies in advance for the state of the code shown below;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
public class TransformFault2 implements ActionListener
    private static final String IMAGE_PATH = "img/transform_screen.gif";
     private static final String plate1_IMAGE_PATH = "img/transform_plate1.gif";
     private static final String plate2_IMAGE_PATH = "img/transform_plate2.gif";
     private ImageIcon animateBtn, boundsBtn;
     private JButton animateOption, boundsOption;
     private int x_1 = 225; // horiz
     private int y_1 = 265; // vert
     private int x_2 = 290;
     private int y_2 = 165;
     private boolean transformFault = false;
     private Timer timer;
     private ActionListener timerListener;
    private BufferedImage myImage = null;
     private BufferedImage plate1 = null;
     private BufferedImage plate2 = null;
    private JPanel imagePanel = new JPanel(null)
        protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
            super.paintComponent(g);
            if (myImage != null)
                g.drawImage(myImage, 0, 0, this);
               if (plate1 != null)
                g.drawImage(plate1, x_1, y_1, this);
               if (plate2 != null)
                g.drawImage(plate2, x_2, y_2, this);
          public void animateTransform()
                    do
                         x_1 = +1;
                         y_1 = +1;
                         x_2 = -1;
                         y_2 = -1;
                    while (transformFault = true);
               repaint();     
               try
                    Thread.sleep(4000);
               catch (InterruptedException e)
    public TransformFault2()
          timerListener = new ActionListener()
           public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent)
                    transformFault = false;
                    timer.stop();
          timer = new Timer(4000, timerListener);
          timer.setRepeats(false);
          animateBtn = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("img/animate.gif"));
          animateOption = new JButton(animateBtn);
          animateOption.setBorder(null);
          animateOption.setContentAreaFilled(false);
          animateOption.setSize(164,66);
          animateOption.setLocation(500,500);
          animateOption.setOpaque(false);
          animateOption.addActionListener(this);
          animateOption.setActionCommand("animate");
          boundsBtn = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("img/boundaries.gif"));
          boundsOption = new JButton(boundsBtn);
          boundsOption.setBorder(null);
          boundsOption.setContentAreaFilled(false);
          boundsOption.setSize(164,66);
          boundsOption.setLocation(200,500);
          boundsOption.setOpaque(false);
          boundsOption.addActionListener(this);
          boundsOption.setActionCommand("boundaries");
        imagePanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800, 600));
        imagePanel.add(animateOption);
          imagePanel.add(boundsOption);
          imagePanel.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
        try
            myImage = createImage(IMAGE_PATH);
        catch (IOException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        catch (URISyntaxException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
          try
            plate1 = createImage(plate1_IMAGE_PATH);
        catch (IOException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        catch (URISyntaxException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
          try
            plate2 = createImage(plate2_IMAGE_PATH);
        catch (IOException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        catch (URISyntaxException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
      if(e.getActionCommand().equals("animate")) 
               timer.start();
               animateTransform();
     else if(e.getActionCommand().equals("boundaries")) 
         WOT2.contentCardLayout.show(WOT2.contentCard, "Boundaries Screen");
    private BufferedImage createImage(String path) throws IOException,
            URISyntaxException
        URL imageURL = getClass().getResource(path);
        if (imageURL != null)
            return ImageIO.read(new File(imageURL.toURI()));
        else
            return null;
    public JPanel getImagePanel()
        return imagePanel;
}Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

When using JLabel to place the images I receive no errors when compiling or in the console upon execution; however the images do not appear on-screen.
When the animate button is clicked nothing happens but Java is crashing, so I assume there must be a problem with the loop?
Amended code can be seen below;
public class TransformFault implements ActionListener
    private static final String IMAGE_PATH = "img/transform_screen.gif";
     private ImageIcon animateBtn, boundsBtn, plate1img, plate2img;
     private JButton animateOption, boundsOption;
     private JLabel plate1, plate2;
     private int x_1 = 225; // horiz
     private int y_1 = 265; // vert
     private int x_2 = 290;
     private int y_2 = 165;
     private boolean transformFault = true;
     private Timer timer;
     private ActionListener timerListener;
    private BufferedImage myImage = null;
    private JPanel imagePanel = new JPanel(null)
        protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
            super.paintComponent(g);
            if (myImage != null)
                g.drawImage(myImage, 0, 0, this);
    public TransformFault()
          timerListener = new ActionListener()
           public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent)
                    transformFault = false;
                    timer.stop();
          timer = new Timer(4000, timerListener);
          timer.setRepeats(false);
          animateBtn = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("img/animate.gif"));
          animateOption = new JButton(animateBtn);
          animateOption.setBorder(null);
          animateOption.setContentAreaFilled(false);
          animateOption.setSize(164,66);
          animateOption.setLocation(500,500);
          animateOption.addActionListener(this);
          animateOption.setActionCommand("animate");
          boundsBtn = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("img/boundaries.gif"));
          boundsOption = new JButton(boundsBtn);
          boundsOption.setBorder(null);
          boundsOption.setContentAreaFilled(false);
          boundsOption.setSize(164,66);
          boundsOption.setLocation(200,500);
          boundsOption.addActionListener(this);
          boundsOption.setActionCommand("boundaries");
          plate1img = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("img/transform_plate1.gif"));
          plate1 = new JLabel(plate1img);
          plate1.setBorder(null);
          plate1.setOpaque(false);
          plate1.setLocation(x_1, y_1);
          plate2img = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("img/transform_plate2.gif"));
          plate2 = new JLabel(plate2img);
          plate2.setBorder(null);
          plate2.setOpaque(false);
          plate2.setLocation(x_2, y_2);
        imagePanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800, 600));
        imagePanel.add(animateOption);
          imagePanel.add(boundsOption);
          imagePanel.add(plate1);
          imagePanel.add(plate2);
          imagePanel.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
        try
            myImage = createImage(IMAGE_PATH);
        catch (IOException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        catch (URISyntaxException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
      if(e.getActionCommand().equals("animate")) 
               timer.start();
               animateTransform();
     else if(e.getActionCommand().equals("boundaries")) 
         WOT2.contentCardLayout.show(WOT2.contentCard, "Boundaries Screen");
    private BufferedImage createImage(String path) throws IOException,
            URISyntaxException
        URL imageURL = getClass().getResource(path);
        if (imageURL != null)
            return ImageIO.read(new File(imageURL.toURI()));
        else
            return null;
    public JPanel getImagePanel()
        return imagePanel;
     public void animateTransform()
               do
                         x_1 = +1;
                         y_1 = +1;
                         x_2 = -1;
                         y_2 = -1;
               while (transformFault = true);
               imagePanel.repaint();     
               try
                    Thread.sleep(4000);
               catch (InterruptedException e)
}