Help me get my image/Ellipse to paint

Question

Hi: I am currently using Ellipse, and I am starting the basic steps for what will soon be a mini-like game. I need to make an Ellipse and put and image over it. Then make it moves on the x,y, axis using arrow keys.
I have had numerous people tell me that my code is fine, and that the Ellipse shows up for them, but I have tried for so long and still cannot get it to paint. I have the image in my projects folder, yet the Ellipse/image wont show whenever I go in Applet viewer. It is simply a blank white screen. I have 2 parts to my project....Bullet.java (contains the actual creating of the Ellipse) and myApplet.java(contains the Graphics g etcetc)
First is Bullet.java:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
public class Bullet {
      private Image picture;
      private int xpos, ypos, height, width, speed, xdir, ydir;
      private Ellipse2D.Double c;
      public Bullet(Image p, int x, int y, int w, int h, int s, int xd)
       picture = p;
       xpos = x;
       ypos = y;
       width = w;
       height = h;
       speed = s;
       xdir = xd;
       ydir = 0;
       c = new Ellipse2D.Double (xpos, ypos,  width,  height);
      public void move()
       xpos = xpos + speed*xdir;
       ypos = ypos + speed*ydir;
       c.setFrame(xpos, ypos,  width,  height);
      public int getX() { return xpos;}
      public int getY() { return ypos ;}
      public int getHeight() { return height; }
      public int getWidth() { return width ;}
      public int getXDir() { return xdir ;}
      public int getYDir() { return ydir ;}
      public void setPos(int a, int b) {xpos = a; ypos = b;}
      public void setDir(int x, int y)
       xdir = x;
       ydir = y;
      public boolean intersects(int x, int y, int w, int h)
       return c.intersects(x, y, w, h);
      public void displayBullet(Graphics2D g)
       g.drawImage(picture, xpos, ypos, width, height, null);
      public void paint(Graphics2D g)
       displayBullet(g);
       g.fill(c);
}and here is myApplet.java
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*; 
import java.awt.image.*;
public class myApplet extends Applet implements KeyListener
     BufferedImage imageBuffer;
      Graphics2D  graphicsBuffer;
      private  Bullet s;
      private Timer t;
      Image p;
public void init()
  imageBuffer = (BufferedImage)createImage(getWidth(), getHeight());
  graphicsBuffer = (Graphics2D) imageBuffer.getGraphics();
  p= getImage(getCodeBase(), "dot.jpg");
  s=new Bullet(p, 20, 250, 50, 200, 20, 0);
  addKeyListener(this);
  setFocusable(true);
  for(int j=0;j<5;j++)
   for(int k=0;k<16;k++)
        p= getImage(getCodeBase(), "dot.jpg");
ActionListener z = new ActionListener()
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)
   s.move();
paint(graphicsBuffer);
t=new Timer(10, z);
t.start();
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
if (e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_DOWN)
  s.setDir(0,1);
if (e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_UP)
  s.setDir(0,-1);
if (e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_LEFT)
  s.setDir(-1,0);
if(e.getKeyCode() ==KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT)
  s.setDir(1,0);
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e)
if (e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_DOWN)
  s.setDir(0,0); 
if (e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_UP)
  s.setDir(0,0);
if (e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_LEFT)
  s.setDir(0,0);
if(e.getKeyCode() ==KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT)
  s.setDir(0,0);
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {} 
public int width = 3000;
public int height= 300;
public void paint(Graphics g)
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
graphicsBuffer.setColor(Color.white);
graphicsBuffer.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
graphicsBuffer.setColor(Color.blue);
s.paint(graphicsBuffer);
g2.drawImage(imageBuffer, 0,0, getWidth(), getHeight(), this);
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
}

Answer 1

XNOCTISX wrote:
Hi: I am currently using Ellipse, Sorry, do you mean Eclipse? It took me a few seconds to realize that's not what this word was. Maybe I'm getting old and need to increase my font size.
You are doing a few things that I don't understand.
Why are you using getGraphics? That's almost definitely not what you want.
graphicsBuffer = (Graphics2D) imageBuffer.getGraphics();Have you confirmed that this works as expected?
p= getImage(getCodeBase(), "dot.jpg");Why:
for(int j=0;j<5;j++)
for(int k=0;k<16;k++)
p= getImage(getCodeBase(), "dot.jpg");
}Again, why? I'm not extremely familiar with applets, but shouldn't this be a call to repaint() or something of the sort? Or better yet, why don't you use a JPanel (and a JApplet) and do the painting there?
paint(graphicsBuffer);This doesn't look right to me at all. Why are you using graphicsBuffer instead of g?
public void paint(Graphics g)
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
graphicsBuffer.setColor(Color.white);
graphicsBuffer.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
graphicsBuffer.setColor(Color.blue);
s.paint(graphicsBuffer);
g2.drawImage(imageBuffer, 0,0, getWidth(), getHeight(), this);
}I think you should take a careful look at the painting and drawing tutorials (here's [another |http://download-llnw.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/painting/index.html] one).
If, after reading both of those tutorials, you still have questions, try posting an [SSCCE |http://sscce.org] (without all that extra stuff in it, and preferably not an applet) that demonstrates the problem.