Displaying and manipulating an BufferedImage

Question

I have to program a game in Java for a university course. Therefore I need to display a quite big image (the game field).
I tried to display the image with an own Panel Class ImagePanel:
public class ImagePanel extends JPanel {
    private BufferedImage background;
    /** Creates a new instance of ImagePanel */
    public ImagePanel(BufferedImage image) {
        this.setBackground(image);
    public void paintComponent(Graphics graphic) {
        super.paintComponent(graphic);
        graphic.drawImage(getBackground(), 0,0,getBackground().getWidth(),getBackground().getHeight(), this);
    public Dimension getPrefferedSize() {
        return new Dimension(getBackground().getWidth(),getBackground().getHeight());
    public BufferedImage getBackground() {
        return background;
    public void setBackground(BufferedImage background) {
        this.background = background;
}I display a BufferedImage using the ImagePanel on a JScrollPane. The image is displayed, but the scrollbars doesn't appear (the Horizontal and VerticalScrollBarPolicy is set to AS_NEEDED) :
        BufferedImage map = ImageIO(UrlToFile);
        Graphics2D graphic = map.createGraphics();
        graphic.drawRenderedImage(map, null);
        imagePanel = new ImagePanel(map);
        jScrollPane1.add(imagePanel);
        jScrollPane1.getViewport().setView(imagePanel);   I also want to resize the image from time to time and put another image on the image. Can anyone tell me how to display the image, scroll and resize it? I also have to put other (small) images on the map, is graphic.DrawRenderedImage(buffImage,null) the best way to do this?

Answer 1

First read How to Use Scroll Panes:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/scrollpane.html
You don't add your ImagePanel to the scroll pane, you set the client using the scroll pane constructor or setViewportView.
Also you need to set the preferred size of the scroll pane to be smaller than the preferred size of your ImagePanel if you want to see the scroll bars.
If you want to resize your image you can set a new preferred size for your ImagePanel, and then call ImagePanel.revalidate.
You just need to change the ImagePanel a bit so it will scale the image to its preferred size.
public class ImagePanel extends JPanel {
    private BufferedImage background;
    /** Creates a new instance of ImagePanel */
    public ImagePanel(BufferedImage image) {
        this.setBackground(image);
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(image.getWidth(), image.getHeight()));
    public void paintComponent(Graphics graphic) {
        super.paintComponent(graphic);
        graphic.drawImage(getBackground(), 0,0,getPreferredSize().getWidth(),getPreferredSize().getHeight(), this);
    public BufferedImage getBackground() {
        return background;
    public void setBackground(BufferedImage background) {
        this.background = background;
}If you want to draw on top of your image you can use one of the drawImage functions in [url http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Graphics2D.html]Graphics2D.