BufferedImage, drawImage and ImageIO

Question

Hey. This is kind of driving me nuts, i have been reading previous post, and do what they say but still no luck.
I have merged two images next to each other, and tried to write the BufferedImage to a file as a jpg.
All i get is a black background of the size of my BufferedImage.
Can someone please tell me what i am doing wrong?
public class Counter {
     public Counter() {
          BufferedImage dest = new BufferedImage(34, 28, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
          Graphics2D destG = dest.createGraphics();
          destG.drawImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("2.gif"), 0, 0, null);
          destG.drawImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("1.gif"), 17, 0, null);
          try {
               createImageFile("my_new_image.jpg", "jpg", dest);
          } catch (IOException io) {
               io.printStackTrace();
     private void createImageFile(String filename, String ext, RenderedImage image) throws IOException {
          OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(filename);
          ImageIO.write(image, ext, out);
          out.flush();
          out.close();
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          new Counter();
Thank you anyone that answers!!!

Answer 1

Hi,,, thanx for the reply,,,, the gif encoder creates the new gif file that is supposed to be a combined image for the 2 bufferedimages.... I already tried ur suggestion b4 but the result was a blank image...
anyways thanks again for the response... already found a cool gif encoder :
to.mumble.GIFCodec.*;
before i used acme....
InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(head));
InputStream is2 = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(body));
InputStream is3 = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(legs));
InputStream is4 = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(feet));
AnimGifDecoder     ade     = new AnimGifDecoder(is);     
AnimGifDecoder     ade2     = new AnimGifDecoder(is2);     
AnimGifDecoder     ade3     = new AnimGifDecoder(is3);     
AnimGifDecoder     ade4     = new AnimGifDecoder(is4);     
BufferedImage     bi     = ade.read(BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_INDEXED);
BufferedImage     bi2     = ade2.read(BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_INDEXED);
BufferedImage     bi3     = ade3.read(BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_INDEXED);
BufferedImage     bi4     = ade4.read(BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_INDEXED);
BufferedImage ima2 = new BufferedImage(200, 200, BufferedImage.TYPE_USHORT_555_RGB);
Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D) ima2.getGraphics();
//g.setColor(Color.orange);
//Font fnt = new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD, 10);
//g.setFont(fnt);
//g.drawString("TESTING", 0, 0);
g.drawImage(bi, 0, 0, null);
g.drawImage(bi2, 0,53,null);
g.drawImage(bi3, 0,99,null);
g.drawImage(bi4, 0,168,null);
g.dispose();
OutputStream     os     = new FileOutputStream(savepath);
     try
          AnimGifEncoder     age     = new AnimGifEncoder(os);
          age.add(ima2);
          age.encode();
     finally
} catch(Exception x) {}
     }