Help ! JMenuItem blocked by ScrollingImagePanel

Question

All,
I hope somebody can help. My JMenuItem is blocked by ScrollingImagePanel, can you please show me how to display the JMenuItem in this context ?
Best Regards

Answer 1

Dear Guru,
Thanks for your reply. I think the image loaded has blocked the JMenuItem. For your convenience, I paste the code here. Please advise how to display back the JMenuItem.
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.swing.table.*;
import java.util.Vector;
//Create Menu
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JCheckBoxMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JRadioButtonMenuItem;
import javax.swing.ButtonGroup;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.KeyStroke;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
//import javax.media.jai.*;
import java.io.*;
//import com.sun.media.jai.codec.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.File;
//import java.io.IOException;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.image.RenderedImage;
import javax.media.jai.widget.ScrollingImagePanel;
import javax.media.jai.NullOpImage;
import javax.media.jai.OpImage;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.SeekableStream;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.FileSeekableStream;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.TIFFDecodeParam;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.ImageDecoder;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.ImageCodec;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.*;
import javax.media.jai.*;
import java.awt.image.renderable.*;
import javax.media.jai.widget.*;
import com.sun.media.jai.codecimpl.*;
//Rotate
import java.awt.geom.*;
import javax.media.jai.JAI;
import javax.media.jai.RenderedOp;
import javax.media.jai.PlanarImage;
import javax.media.jai.operator.TransposeDescriptor;
public class viewImageTest extends JFrame {
    ScrollingImagePanel panelImage;
    int selectPageCounter = 0;
    static String filename;
    JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());
    int imageToLoad;
    int totalPages;
    int currentPage;
    JLabel labelMessage;
    String pageMessage;
     String printDir = "C:\\Iims\\twain52\\Examples\\";
     String printImage = "";
     boolean splitted = false;
     float zoomValue = 100;
     int rowRotate = 0;
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
          filename = args[0];
          viewImageTest view = new viewImageTest();
          view.firstPageDisplay();
    private class GBC extends GridBagConstraints {
     public GBC(int x, int y, int w, int h, double wx, double wy, int a,
         int f, Insets i, int px, int py) {
         super(x, y, w, h, wx, wy, a, f, i, px, py);
     public GBC adjust(int x, int y, double wx, double wy) {
         return adjust(x, y, gridwidth, gridheight, wx, wy);
     public GBC adjust(int x, int y, int w, int h, double wx, double wy) {
         gridx = x;
         gridy = y;
         gridwidth = w;
         gridheight = h;
         weightx = wx;
         weighty = wy;
         if (wx == 1.0 && wy == 1.0) {
          fill = BOTH;
         } else if (wx == 1.0) {
          fill = HORIZONTAL;
         } else if (wy == 1.0) {
          fill = VERTICAL;
         } else {
          fill = NONE;
          return this;
    public void firstPageDisplay() throws IOException {
          setTitle("View Image for " + filename );
          //JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());
          GBC gbc = new GBC(0, 0, 1, 1, 0.0, 0.0, GBC.WEST, GBC.NONE,
          new Insets(2, 2, 2, 2), 0, 0);
        /*JMenuBar menuBar;
        JMenu menu, submenu;
        JMenuItem menuItem;
        JCheckBoxMenuItem cbMenuItem;
        JRadioButtonMenuItem rbMenuItem;*/
          JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
          JMenuItem r90Item, r180Item, r270Item;
          setJMenuBar(menuBar);//Add the menu bar to the window.
          JMenu rotateMenu = new JMenu("Rotate");//Create Rotate menu
          JMenu printMenu = new JMenu("Print");//Create Print menu
          //Construct the Rotate pull down menu
          r90Item = rotateMenu.add("Rotate 90 Degree");
          r180Item = rotateMenu.add("Rotate 180 Degree");
          r270Item = rotateMenu.add("Rotate 270 Degree");
          r90Item.setVisible(true);
          menuBar.add(rotateMenu);
          addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
               public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
                    //System.exit(0);
                    //JFrame.destroy();
                    setVisible(false);
                    dispose();
          String[] arrayRotate = {
                 "Rotate 90",
                 "Rotate 180",
                 "Rotate 270"
        final JComboBox cbRotate = new JComboBox(arrayRotate);
        //patternList.setEditable(true);
        cbRotate.setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);
        cbRotate.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent eCT) {
                JComboBox cb = (JComboBox)eCT.getSource();
                String newSelection = (String)cb.getSelectedItem();
                    rowRotate = (int)cb.getSelectedIndex();
                //strScanType = newSelection;
                    System.out.println("rowRotate: " + rowRotate);
          //getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          //getContentPane().add(panelImage, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          //getContentPane().add(panelbuttons, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        File file = new File(filename);
        SeekableStream s = new FileSeekableStream(file);
        TIFFDecodeParam param = null;
        ImageDecoder dec = ImageCodec.createImageDecoder("tiff", s, param);
          totalPages = dec.getNumPages();
        System.out.println("Number of images in this TIFF: " +
                           dec.getNumPages());
        // Which of the multiple images in the TIFF file do we want to load
        // 0 refers to the first, 1 to the second and so on.
        imageToLoad = selectPageCounter;
          selectPageCounter++;
          currentPage = imageToLoad + 1;
          System.out.println("Loading page: " + currentPage);
          pageMessage = "Page " + currentPage + " of " + totalPages;
          labelMessage = new JLabel(pageMessage);
        RenderedImage op =
            new NullOpImage(dec.decodeAsRenderedImage(imageToLoad),
                            null,
                            OpImage.OP_IO_BOUND,
                            null);
          panelbuttons.add(labelMessage);
          getContentPane().add(panelbuttons, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
          // Display the original in a 800x800 scrolling window
          panelImage = new ScrollingImagePanel(op, 795, 520);     
          getContentPane().add(panelImage, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          pack();
          show();
          //setSize(795, 520);
          //setVisible(true);