Create and display an Image within a object?

Question

Hi,
I'd like to make objects that (among other things) hold a GIF-image. Then I would like for these objects to be able to display themselves. Like this:
public class MyApplet extends Applet {
private Tree tree;
public void init() { tree = new Tree();}
public void paint(Graphics g) { tree.display(g);}
class Tree {
private Image im;
public Tree() { //create im here from file "tree.gif" ??}
public void display(Graphics g) { //display im here??}
Any idea how I can do this? Which librarymethods could I use and how?
Thanx,
JB

Answer 1

What you could do is have theTree class extend JLabel and include a constuctor like
public Tree(String filename)
/*path is a class variable*/
path=filename;
     ImageIcon ii= new ImageIcon(filename);
     this.setIcon(ii);
then in a JFrame you could do something like
Tree theTree = new Tree("/images/picture.gif");
add(theTree);
or use a layout Manager. Hope this helped