What is the best way to use images?

Question

I need to be able to load an image and set it's size. I am going to let the user pick what picture they want and I need to be able to use any size picture and make it smaller so that it will only be as big as I set it to be.

Answer 1

Here a brief piece of code to help to resize your Images:
public void showAnyImage(URL url)
Image anImg = new anImage(url);
img = anImg.getImage();
MediaTracker mt = new MediaTracker(this);
mt.addImage(img, 0);
try {
//waiting for fully upload
mt.waitForAll();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
//do something with your error
repaint();
// now you could scale the size like this
img = img.getScaledInstance(img.getWidth(this), img.getHeight(this), 0);
// or to make it 200 pxls smaller (vertic. and horizont.)
img = img.getScaledInstance(getWidth()-200, getHeight()-200, 0);
repaint();
public void paint(Graphics g)
if (img != null) {
g.drawImage(img,100,100,this);
Hope it helps