How to use an image as button?

Question

I want to set an image as the background of a frame, and also want use four regions of the image as four buttons. How?

Answer 1

How about an image on the JFrame with four JButtons with some type of image (even if you copy a piece of you original image to place on the button)? I played around with this and its kind of neat. Easier from a gui perspective to see buttons than flat regions -
Have fun
//in a class that extends JFrame, create the image panel and add buttons with icons to it...
Container contentPane = getContentPane();
ImagePanel imagePanel = new ImagePanel(); //see below
contentPane.add(imagePanel);
JButton button = new JButton();
button.setIcon(new ImageIcon(WorldMap.class.getResource("someGIF.gif"))); //or other form of getting and setting an icon
button.setSize(65,45);
mcsButton.setLocation(405,175);
mcsButton.setContentAreaFilled(false); //important so the button looks like a raised part of the picture...not a grey box with an icon.
mcsButton.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter()
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
//do something
imagePanel.setLayout(null);
imagePanel.add(mcsButton,null);
//code to put an image on a JPanel I received from this forum
class ImagePanel extends JPanel
private Image image;
public ImagePanel()
image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("C:/WholeWorldViewJPG.jpg");
MediaTracker tracker = new MediaTracker(this);
tracker.addImage(image, 0);
try
tracker.waitForID(0);
catch (InterruptedException e)
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
super.paintComponent(g);
Dimension d = getSize();
int clientWidth = d.width;
int clientHeight = d.height;
int imageWidth = image.getWidth(this);
int imageHeight = image.getHeight(this);
g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
for (int i = 0; i * imageWidth <= clientWidth; i++)
for (int j = 0; j * imageHeight <= clientHeight; j++)
if (i + j > 0)
g.copyArea(0, 0, imageWidth, imageHeight, i * imageWidth, j * imageHeight);
}