I am trying to display an image on a JPanel
. I'm using an ImageIcon
for rendering the image, and the image is in the same directory as the class file. However, the image is not being displayed, and there are no errors occuring. Could anyone please assist in working out what's wrong with my code...
package ev;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class Image extends JPanel {
ImageIcon image = new ImageIcon("peanut.jpg");
int x = 10;
int y = 10;
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
image.paintIcon(this, g, x, y);
}
}
You should use
ImageIcon image = new ImageIcon(this.getClass()
.getResource("org/myproject/mypackage/peanut.jpg"));
This is a common confusion among programmers. The
getClass().getResource(path)
loads resources from the classpath.
ImageIcon image = new ImageIcon("peanut.jpg");
If we only provide the name of the image file then Java is
looking for it in the current working directory.
If you are using NetBeans, the CWD is the project directory. You
can figure out the CWD at runtime with the following call:
System.out.println(new File("").getAbsolutePath());
The following is a code example, where you can test this for yourself.
package com.zetcode;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.io.File;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
class DrawingPanel extends JPanel {
private ImageIcon icon;
public DrawingPanel() {
loadImage();
int w = icon.getIconWidth();
int h = icon.getIconHeight();
setPreferredSize(new Dimension(w, h));
}
private void loadImage() {
icon = new ImageIcon("book.jpg");
}
@Override
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
icon.paintIcon(this, g, 0, 0);
}
}
public class ImageIconExample extends JFrame {
public ImageIconExample() {
initUI();
}
private void initUI() {
DrawingPanel dpnl = new DrawingPanel();
add(dpnl);
// System.out.println(new File("").getAbsolutePath());
pack();
setTitle("Image");
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
JFrame ex = new ImageIconExample();
ex.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
}
The following picture shows where to put the book.jpg
image in NetBeans if we only provide the image name
to the ImageIcon
constructor.
We have the same program from the command line. We are inside the ImageIconExample
directory.
$ pwd
/home/vronskij/prog/swing/ImageIconExample
$ tree
.
├── book.jpg
└── com
└── zetcode
├── DrawingPanel.class
├── ImageIconExample$1.class
├── ImageIconExample.class
└── ImageIconExample.java
2 directories, 5 files
The program is run with the following command:
$ ~/bin/jdk1.7.0_45/bin/java com.zetcode.ImageIconExample
You can find out more at my Displaying image in Java tutorial.