Displaying Image in JFrame

Question

I was able to display an image in a JApplet by creating another class extended from JPanel.
When I try to display the same image in my JFrame based application, it fails, although the code compiles alright.
Can anyone give me a snippet of code to include in my application which can be used in conjunction with my extended JPanel?
Thanks in advance.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class ImagePanel extends JPanel {
Image image;
public ImagePanel(Image img) { image = img; }
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(image.getWidth(this), image.getHeight (this)); }
public void paint(Graphics gr) {
gr.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
}

Answer 1

you can use a Label with an ImageIcon in it and it does not involve any overriding
ex:-
This example shoews ho to conver your ImagePanel using inage labels
but with image label you will not need a seperate class called ImagePanel you can just use Labels
and also normaly you dont override paint you override paintComponent
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class ImagePanel extends JPanel {
   ImageIcon image;
   public ImagePanel(Image img) {
      image = new ImageIcon(img);
      setLayout(new BorderLayout());
      add(new JLabel(image));
   public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
      return new Dimension(image.getWidth(), image.getHeight ());
public void paint(Graphics gr) {
   gr.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
}