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How to put image background on JPANEL? JPanel pDraw = new JPanel(new GridLayout(ROWS,COLS,2,2)); pDraw.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(600,600)); //size of the JPanel pDraw.setBackground(Color.RED); //How can I change the background from red color to image? Here's an explanation. It is probably easiest to load the Image into an ImageIcon and display it in a JLabel , however: To directly 'draw' the image to the JPanel, override the JPanel's paintComponent(Graphics) method to something like the following: public void paintComponent(Graphics page) { super.paintComponent(page); page.drawImage(img,

I've got a JMenuBar and a JPanel. I'd like to add the JMenuBar to the JPanel. How would I do so? You can use a BorderLayout for your JPanel and put the JMenuBar into the NORTH area of the panel with JPanel p = new JPanel(); p.setLayout(new BorderLayout()); p.add(menubar, BorderLayout.NORTH); JMenuBar is a JComponent and can be added to a Container like any other JComponent. JMenuBars are set to the JFrame using the setJMenuBar method. See the following tutorial on how to use them. http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/menu.html Panday Manish Sahay I tried too but

I have a JPanel into a JFrame . I loaded a picture on the JPanel but its shown just a part of the picture: This is the part of the code where i did it: JPanel panelImg = new JPanel() { public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { Image img = new ImageIcon("Welcome.png").getImage(); Dimension size = new Dimension(img.getWidth(null), img.getHeight(null)); setPreferredSize(size); setMinimumSize(size); setMaximumSize(size); setSize(size); setLayout(null); g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null); } }; mainFrame.add(panelImg); So this is how it looks like: The complete picture looks like this: Is there a way to

I am trying to build an MVC application in Java Swing. I have a JPanel that contains four JComboBoxes and this JPanel is embedded into a parent JPanel. The parent JPanel has other controls in addition to the child JPanel. The child JPanel's model gets correctly updated whenever I change the values of the JComboBoxes (it's basically a date picker with one combo box each for year, month, day of month, and hour of day). What I cannot figure out is how I can trigger the parent JPanel's model to update itself to match the value stored in the child JPanel's model whenever one of the JComboBoxes is

What would be the most appropriate image type to display a jpg image (loaded from a local folder) on a JPanel? Cheers. ImageIcon image = new ImageIcon("image/pic1.jpg"); JLabel label = new JLabel("", image, JLabel.CENTER); JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout()); panel.add( label, BorderLayout.CENTER ); You could use a javax.swing.ImageIcon and add it to a JLabel using setIcon() method, then add the JLabel to the JPanel. I'd probably use an ImageIcon and set it on a JLabel which I'd add to the JPanel. Here's Sun's docs on the subject matter. I would use a Canvas that I add to the JPanel,

When I set the GridLayout to the JPanel and then add something, it is added subsequently in the "text order" (from left to right, from top to bottom). But I want to add an element to a specific cell (in the i-th row in the j-th column). Is it possible? No, you can't add components at a specific cell. What you can do is add empty JPanel objects and hold on to references to them in an array, then add components to them in any order you want. Something like: int i = 3; int j = 4; JPanel[][] panelHolder = new JPanel[i][j]; setLayout(new GridLayout(i,j)); for(int m = 0; m < i; m++) { for(int n = 0;

I have a JPanel element and I would like added a drop shadow to it, how can I add a nice faded drop shadow to the element? Do I need to use external libraries or is there something that is built in that I can use? Example: So I looked into swingx which extends JPanel and was able to achieve the results I was looking for with the following code: public class Canvas extends JXPanel{ public Canvas(){ DropShadowBorder shadow = new DropShadowBorder(); shadow.setShadowColor(Color.BLACK); shadow.setShowLeftShadow(true); shadow.setShowRightShadow(true); shadow.setShowBottomShadow(true); shadow

I am learning Java gui. The way I learnt to create a window is to inherit or Extend JFrame class and it is good to use it, as JFrame contains all the properties of a Window. Now If I want to add something to this window, I need to use add() method. But Today I came across JPanel which also creates a windows and we can add stuff by jpanelObjec.add() . What is the difference between the two methods? Are they somehow related? You should not extend the JFrame class unnecessarily (only if you are adding extra functionality to the JFrame class) JFrame : JFrame extends Component and Container . It is

I am working on homework for class, and its late because I can't seem to understand the material despite all the research that I am doing. I am a beginner and do not know much in the way of java. Also, this is my first post so please be forgiving when you are reading this. I am building on source code from my textbook, which I updated recently for past homework, but now I am trying to generate a class that draws multiple squares and moves those objects independently and at different speeds. They will all need to rebound off the walls as well. I followed the instructions and created two arrays