HELP!!! Image Class

Can somone please tell me how to load an image file ( .jpg for example ) without extending the Applet class!!!! I know theres a way to get around this... Who has ideas?? Plz help...

I could only find this quote from the docs

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The image must be obtained in a platform-specific manner.

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And I could find the getImage/createImage(String) method of java.awt.Toolkit . But it is not static and Toolkit is abstract, so I don't know how to actually use it (besides Sun saying it should not be used directly).
I could find java.awt.Component.createImage, but those two functions take either a width and a height or an ImageProducer. No ImageProducer I found takes a filename as input.

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Originally posted by CornedBee
And I could find the getImage/createImage(String) method of java.awt.Toolkit . But it is not static and Toolkit is abstract, so I don't know how to actually use it (besides Sun saying it should not be used directly).

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I think either System or Toolkit has a getDefaultToolkit() method which is static. That is how to get a Toolkit instance.

:)

You could use javax.swing.ImageIcon to load the image, then use it's getImage method to get the image.

But that's not really great.

This procedure will load your image for you.

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  private Image loadImage(String ImageName)
  {
    Image image = null;
                Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
                image = toolkit.getImage(ImageName);
                MediaTracker mediaTracker = new MediaTracker(this);
                mediaTracker.addImage(image, 0);
                try
                {
                        mediaTracker.waitForID(0);
                }
                catch (InterruptedException ie)
                {
                        System.err.println(ie);
                        System.exit(1);
                }
    return image;
  }

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To display it on a Panel, you'll need to create a paint method for the panel similar to this.

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public void paint(Graphics graphics) {
    super.paintComponents (graphics);
          graphics.drawImage(loadImage("Hello.gif"), 140, 330, null);

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I am absolutely going insane over this, I CANNOT load any images into my apps. I tried everthing, I get no errors, but nothing works.

I want to set the icon of my frame's window, I first tried this:

myFrame.setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage( new File("./Images/Bomberman.gif").getCanonicalPath()));

It didn't work, then I tried the example that was last posted, still no such luck .... what the heck is going on??

Ok, I found this, and it seems to work just fine:

setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(GameFrame.class.getResource("Images/icon.gif")));

Damn .... thats alot to load just one image!

You call one long line a lot for loading a gif-encoded image? You might want to try writing your own loading code.


Always those high-level programmers, hm, hm...
:D

The Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit() has many methods for opening images... However, I solved my problem by writing a class that loads images from an archived ( .zip ) file.