Drawing in NetBeans (Hope this is the right forum)

Question

Hello.
I got a litle question.
can I draw pictures on the the frame with the GUI builder? (I mean if there is a button "draw picutre" or maybe something through the properties on the frame/panel or something like that)
or I need to override by myself its paintComponent() method in the source tab?(or I need to write the paintComponent() code manually)
I am using netBeans 6.0.1 if its matter..
If its not the right forum for my problem please tell me
Thanks in advance , Gonen
Edited by: Gonen on Mar 16, 2008 8:35 AM

Answer 1

Gonen wrote:
but I got already a picture that I want to draw (JPG file)I'm sorry, my bad but I misunderstood you. So you want your application to show a picture, is that it? If so, the easiest way I know of is to create an ImageIcon with your picture, place this imageicon in a JLabel, and show the JLabel. If you need to show a picture in the background, then you'll probably need to override the paintComponent of a JPanel, draw the image there using a graphics method such as drawImage(...). You can learn a lot about how to do this here:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/painting/index.html
here:
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/painting/
and here:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/images/index.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/index.html
Here's a simple example of using an ImageIcon:
        try
            String imageFile1 = "disc/d1/f/image1.jpg";
            icon1 = new ImageIcon(ImageIO.read(new File(imageFile1)));
            JPanel jp1 = new JPanel();
            jp1.add(new JLabel(icon1));
            //.... more code here
        catch (IOException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        }Good luck
Edited by: Encephalopathic on Mar 17, 2008 9:56 AM