Help for displaying an image on my application.

[chanshaw]

Alright so basically I have a logo named "DirSync.jp g" and I want to display it on the top portion of my application window in a container (either JLabel or JPanel which ever is normally recommended)

public class MainFrame extends JFrame 
{  
   public MainFrame()
   {
       super();
       this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
       this.setSize(500,500);
       this.add(getMainPanel());
       this.setVisible(true);
   }
   
   private JPanel getMainPanel()
   {
       JPanel panel = new JPanel();
       panel.setBackground(getLuckyPointColor());
       panel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
       panel.add(getTitlePanel());
       return panel;
   }
}

I want the getTitlePanel to return me a panel with my image as the background could someone add what I need to do here I've searched around and can't find anything of use... thanks.

[JosAH]

The normal steps are:

1) get the URL of your file/resource (see the Class class);
2) get the ImageIcon given the URL;
3) feed the ImageIcon to a JLabel;
4) put your JLabel in a JPanel somewhere.

Alternatively you can change steps 1) and 2) by getting an ImageIcon given the
name of a file directly.

kind regards,

Jos