Help please on image resizing

Question

How do you resize images (I can't find anything in the APIs).
At the moment I have an application with an inherited layeredPane and images (from inherited JLabels) drawn on top.
The pane currently has no layout, if I resize the application everything else resizes but the images stay the same.
Would anyone be able to show me what I have to change to enable the images to resize, help would be appreciated.
public class BoardPanel extends JLayeredPane
    public BoardPanel()
    //Overwrite abstract painting method
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
        super.paintComponent(g);
        //draw Image at size of panel starting at 0,0
     g.drawImage(backgroundImage,0,0,this.getWidth(), this.getHeight(), null);
    private Image backgroundImage = new ImageIcon("./Images/Board.gif").getImage();
public class PieceIcon extends JLabel
    //Create new image with the piece (symbol) chosen by the player
    public PieceIcon(String symbol,int pNum)
        playerNumber = pNum;
        pieceImage = new ImageIcon("./Images/"+symbol+".jpg").getImage();
        setOpaque(false);
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
       super.paintComponent(g);
       g.drawImage(pieceImage,boardPos[0][(MainFrame.getPlayer(playerNumber).getCurrentBoardPos())],
                              boardPos[1][(MainFrame.getPlayer(playerNumber).getCurrentBoardPos())],this);
    private Image pieceImage;
    private int playerNumber;
    private static int[][] boardPos = //load of absolute values, change to proportionate values if images can be resized
public class MainFrame extends JFrame
    /** Creates new form JFrame */
    public MainFrame()
        initGUI();
        pack();
    private void initGUI()
       //create components and add to frame, including:
        JPanel content = new JPanel();
        getContentPane().add(content, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
        content.add(boardIcon, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
        //Create the board Pane
           boardIcon.setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(500,500));
        //start at (x,y) 0,0, with height/width (600,600)
            boardIcon.setBounds(0,0,600,600);  //does this have to be set again if window is resized?
        boardIcon.setLayout(null);      
    public void createPieces()
       //method called in main once player names and details have been enterd
       playerPieces = new PieceIcon[this.getNumPlayers()];
       for(int i=0; i<this.getNumPlayers(); i++)
          //Create new icon with players piece selection and number selection
          playerPieces[i] = new PieceIcon(this.getPlayer(i).getPiece(),i);
         //Add piece at depth of '10' (default layer is 0 so just above other board components)
         boardIcon.add(playerPieces,new Integer(10));
//label size of board, piece drawn at specific point within board
playerPieces[i].setBounds(0,0,boardIcon.getHeight(),boardIcon.getWidth());
private static BoardPanel boardIcon = new BoardPanel();
private PieceIcon[] playerPieces;
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need to use g.drawImage(image, dest.x, dest.y, dest.width, dest.height, source.x, source.y, source.width, source.height, null)
It's in the Graphics API. It will scale the image on the fly. The destination coordinates should be the panel you want to paint on.