icon on JFrame and then GridLayout

[kalar]

I want to ask something about swing.
Can i set an icon ( it is a big picture) in JFrame and then add labels with GridLayout over the picture?What i want to do is :
in my window i want to have a big picture
and then i want to put with GridLayout other labels or buttons , i mean i will put these in specific positions in the image.I don't want to delete the image.Is this possible?
One of those things that i want to add on the picture it would me some little circles,how will i do this? I thing to put a gif ( which has a circle ) in a label, is this good technic ? or not?

and something else : in the sun java tutorial where says how can i set a picture, because i can't find it?


Thanks

[Laharl]

You can't put images in JLabels, those are for text. To add an icon to a JFrame, look at the Image class. I don't know how to add the additional images, but I'd guess it involves Panes.

[JosAH]

You can't put images in JLabels, those are for text. To add an icon to a JFrame, look at the Image class. I don't know how to add the additional images, but I'd guess it involves Panes.

You can put an icon (e.g. an ImageIcon) in a JLabel; read its API. About that
picture and other things: be creative with a LayeredLayout and transparent (i.e.
not opaque) JPanels and possibly other layout managers.

kind regards,

Jos