Drawing an Image to a JPanel within a JFrame

Question

I am designing a program that contains two JPanels within a JFrame, one is for holding an image, the other for holding GUI components(Searchfields etc). I am wondering how d

Answer 1

There is no need to manually invoke paintComponent() from a constructor. The problem is that you passing null for a Graphics object. Instead, override paintComponent() and you use the Graphics object passed in to the method you will be using for painting. Check this tutorial. Here is an example of JPanel with image:

class MyImagePanel extends JPanel{ 
    BufferedImage image;
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
        super.paintComponent(g);
        if(image != null){
            g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
        }
    }
}