Can any tell me how to make Collage from selected images

Question

Hi
I need to make a Collage of selected Images. Can anybody tell me how to proceed or point me a finger in the right direction. If there is an example then it would be great.
Thanks in advance
praveena

Answer 1

One way you can do this is to override Panel, and set up clips, like this (mind you this is a very crude example. If you used this method, you'd want to set up loops and calculations to set the Polygon dimensions:
  private class MySubPanel  extends Panel {
    private Image[] images;
    private MySubPanel(Image[] _images) {
      images  = _images;
    public void paint(Graphics g) {
// Just for a test, let's just assume only two Images are past in.
      int[]   xPnts = new int[] { 0,30,50,70,80, 95,75,60,45,30,15, 0},
              yPnts = new int[] {20,35,15,35,20,110,75,95,70,85,55,30};
      Polygon p     = new Polygon(xPnts, yPnts, 12);
      g.setColor(new Color(50,150,20));
      g.setClip(p);
      g.drawImage(images[0], 0, 0, this);
      xPnts = new int[] { 0,15,30,45,60,75, 95, 80, 70, 50, 30,  0};
      yPnts = new int[] {30,55,85,70,95,75,220,130,145,135,155,130};
      p     = new Polygon(xPnts, yPnts, 12);
      g.setColor(new Color(50,150,20));
      g.setClip(p);
      g.drawImage(images[1], 0, 0, this);