Creating Transparent Images

Question

I need to create a 10 X 10 transparent gif image (entirely transparent). I would imagine that this would be fairly simple but I don't know how to get started. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

Another way to have a transparent Icon:
public class TransparentIcon implements javax.swing.Icon {
   private int h = 10;
   private int w = 10;
   public TransparentIcon() {
      super();
   public TransparentIcon(int w, int h) {
      super();
      this.h = h;
      this.w = w;
   public int getIconHeight() { return h; }
   public int getIconWidth() { return w; }
   public void paintIcon(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y) {
      // do nothing
}