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user3365229
user3365229

Reputation: 1

How to place an Image in a Java Swing GUI

I'm new to Swing and just need to know how to place an image on the home screen of my GUI. I don't want it to be the background. When my lecturer demoed it I think he placed it inside a JLabel. I saved the image to my laptop, but do I need to import it into the project I'm working on in Eclipse? If so, where is the best place to save it to? Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1580

Answers (2)

Braj
Braj

Reputation: 46841

Put all the images in images folder that you have in your project in parallel to src folder.

       F:/>Kiosk
             |
             |___src                 
                   |
                   |__main1.java
             |
             |__images
                |
                |__c.jpg
                |__d.jpg
                |__e.jpg
                |__f.jpg

Use this code

ImageIO.read(new File("images\\c.jpg"));
ImageIO.read(new File("images\\d.jpg"));

You can try any one

// Read from same package 
ImageIO.read(getClass().getResourceAsStream("c.png"));

// Read from absolute path
ImageIO.read(new File("E:\\SOFTWARE\\TrainPIS\\res\\drawable\\c.png"));

// Read from images folder parallel to src in your project
ImageIO.read(new File("images\\c.jpg"));

All the above method returns BufferedImage.

How to convert BufferedImage into ImageIcon?

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File("images\\c.jpg"));
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(image);
JLabel label = new JLabel(icon);

Upvotes: 3

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 192

Create an image subdirectory within your Eclipse project and copy the graphic to that folder. Then, extend JPanel something like this:

class MyImagePanel extends JPanel {
    private ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon("image/myimage.gif");
    private Image image = imageIcon.getImage();

    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    super.paintComponent(g);

    if (image != null) g.drawImage(image,0,0,getWidth(),getHeight(),this);
    }
}

from there, you can add this panel to your main JFrame using:

 add(new MyImagePanel());

Upvotes: 0

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