Getting the location of non-transperant pixels in an image

Question

Hello everybody,
I'm not really new into java, but I am new at working with images... and since I'm making this game i simply have to ^^, anyway here's my problem:
I'm trying to test for collosion (if a part of a character/player hits an object (enemy, wall, ground) in a level) and to do that i came up with the following idea:
I'll make this special class called ImagePixels, so when i get/create a new image testImage (in an other class, for example the class player or levelobject) I can also create a new ImagePixel object, like this:
private Image characterStandRight;
private void getImages()
          MediaTracker tracker = new MediaTracker(this);
          characterStandRight = getImage(getCodeBase(), "Images/"+player.getCharacterName()+"/standright.gif");
          tracker.addImage(characterStandRight, 1);
          test = new ImagePixels(characterStandRight);
          test.returnPixelLocation();
          try
               tracker.waitForAll();
          catch (Exception exception)
     }  But i simply don't know an effecient way of getting these locations :( (i tried the ComponentColorModel class and some more)....
and I'm not even sure if this is the best way to test for collosion... :( any1 can help me??
Patrick,

Answer 1

O noes, nobody answers :(