Tutorial/HowTo for Java JFrame image map

I am a first semester Java student and am required to program a very simple game. I want to paint a Super Mario theme using 30x30 pixel blocks. I have been going through tutorials for a few days on displaying gif/jpg/png within a jframe and all use different methods. Does anyone know of a tutorial that focuses on building a jframe that is filled by a 2d array, each array element being a png?
I am new to JFrames having spent most my time with console/text only programming.

Welcome to the Sun forums.
atozer wrote:
I am a first semester Java student and am required to program a very simple game. A 'very simple' game would be console based. Perhaps 'hangman' would fit the bill.
.. I want to paint a Super Mario theme using 30x30 pixel blocks. Huhh.. What does 'theme' mean to you? Searching for 'Super Mario theme' all I could see was hits for the theme music. I take it this would be better described in a screen-shot. Do you have a link to one?
..I have been going through tutorials for a few days on displaying gif/jpg/png within a jframe and all use different methods. Does anyone know of a tutorial that focuses on building a jframe that is filled by a 2d array, each array element being a png?1) It is generally not a good idea to consider a root component such as a JFrame, JApplet, JWindow or JDialog to be the 'main area' of the GUI. Instead it is more common/useful to put the main GUI into a JPanel, which can then be put into any of the root level components as needed.
2) I suspect your tutorial requirements are too specific for any single tutorial. Instead look to tutorials on 2D rendering, and separately to tutorials dealing with images. The 'creating a GUI' part is worthy of its own tutorial as well.
I am new to JFrames having spent most my time with console/text only programming.And we come back to. A simple game is a console based game.
If somebody was set on learning to create GUIs, I would recommend they steer clear of GUI based games until they have completed a number of GUI based projects that do not involve custom painting (let alone the intricacies of doing custom painting in a responsive game that renders at nn FPS), which I suspect is what is needed to recreate a Super Mario game.
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