Display an image on a JPanel

Hi,
I am confused about all the MediaTracker and BufferedImage class used to display an image file (e.g. GIF or JPG) on a JPanel
Can someone provide the steps and also the code snippet of the JPanel's paint() method?
I want to display an image directly on the JPanel.
Thank you.

"the scrollpane doesn't work" is not very descriptive.
So I can't help you with that problem.
The suggested code given to you may not work in all
situations:
1) super.paintComponent(..) tells the panel to paint
all its children (in case you've added any other
components to the panel).
2) drawImage() tells the panel to draw the image over
top of all the children (which defeats the whole
purpose of doing the super.paintComponent())
The safer order should be:
1) drawImage()
2) setOpaque( false )
3) super.paintComponent().
This approach will then work for adding images to the
background of a textArea, textPane etc.Good point that I did not consider since my JPanel is exclusively used for an image with no components added.
If your image is known not to have an alpha channel, you could setOpaque(false) in the extended JPanel's constructor and avoid recalling for every paint (as I am able to do in my situation). You'll probably want to do this in otherwise:
setOpaque(true);
drawImage(image,x,y,observer);
setOpaque(false);
super.paintComponent(g);
since the next call to paintComponent() will already be setOpaque(false) (unless it is automatically reset, which I haven't seen).
Robert Templeton

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Override the paintComponent method to just draw the
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The rest is not needed, to say the least.Here's an easier way
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import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.File;
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Hi,
You should try searching over the forum before posting....
Here is a link to a similar post in this forum...
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=550457&messageID=2688013
And here is some clumsy code from myside. It works beautifully though:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
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          playerScore[i] = new JLabel("0");
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Hi,
I'm trying to do a very simple task which is just to display an image in a JFrame. But, I can't do it!!! Please help me, with what import statements i need and nething else for this simple thing. I looked at the swing tutorial, but it didn' seem to give me a precise answer, yet it confused me with something called ImageIcon?? Please help!!! How do I display an image in a Jframe???? (image is saved in the same place as the file) What code would i write in the following code given and where, to display a pic??
//SSPanesar
//copyright 2005 all rights reserved
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import javax.swing.*;
//For buttons
import javax.swing.AbstractButton;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
public class WindowOnly extends JFrame
public WindowOnly()
setBackground(Color.pink);
public void paint (Graphics g) // allows the background color to be applied.
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
public void paintWindowOnly()
JFrame myFrame = new WindowOnly();
myFrame.setSize (900,650);
myFrame.show();
public static void main (String[] args)
WindowOnly myWindow = new WindowOnly();
myWindow.paintWindowOnly();
}

Ok, it seems to have worked, thanks very much for ur help. I know my Java's weak but its something i wanna gte good at. I appreciate ur help. Was wondering, Is it possible to have u direct email pls? In cases i ur not here in the forum?

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