Transparant ImgIcon at background

[warchieflll]

Hello all!

I've a JPanel with a background. I want to add some transparants pictures on it (to start: a tree). The picture is a PNG, and I'm sure it is a transparant picture. Altough it still draws it as not-transparant:

JPanel of background:

  public LevelPaneel()
  {
    setLayout(null);
    addMouseListener(this);
    addMouseMotionListener(this);
    
    backgr = new ImageIcon("pics/achtergrond.png");
    background = backgr.getImage();
  }

...

  public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
  {
	    int width = getWidth();
	    int height = getHeight();

	    g.drawImage(background, 0, 0, this.getWidth(),this.getHeight(), this);
  }

And here the part of the tree: (note: the first three lines of 'SpelElement' I don't use anymore, but needs to be there, because when I delete it it won't show the tree at all...)

public class SpelElement extends JPanel
{
  protected int breedte = 120, hoogte = 145;
  protected String tekst;
  protected Color kleur;
  protected ImageIcon boom, muur;

  public SpelElement(int x, int y)
  {
    tekst = "Boom";
    kleur = Color.GREEN;
    setBounds(x - (breedte / 2), y - (hoogte / 2), breedte, hoogte);

	int MARGE = 0; // afstand vanaf de bovenrand
	int KNOP_BREEDTE = 120; // breedte in pixels
	int KNOP_HOOGTE = 145; // breedte in pixels
	int KNOP_AFSTAND = 0; // verschuiving
	int X_LOCATIE = 0; // linkerkant van de knop
	
    JLabel imgLabel;
	boom = new ImageIcon("pics/boom.png");
	imgLabel = new JLabel(boom);
	imgLabel.setBounds(X_LOCATIE, KNOP_AFSTAND + MARGE, 
	KNOP_BREEDTE, KNOP_HOOGTE);
	add(imgLabel);

	System.out.println(imgLabel);
	repaint();
  
  }

Hope ya could help me out!

[Fubarable]

For better help, post a very simple compilable and runnable program along with an image or a link to the image so we can see the problem on our own computers. The simpiler and shorter the code, the better your chances of getting decent help. Much luck!

[warchieflll]

That's the problem... In a simple program I get it to work...

[rdjava]

My GameEngine performs this task simply. Here is the code.
You can also cause the image to become translucent too.

private BufferedImage mbt(BufferedImage image,
final Color color){
BufferedImage dimg = new BufferedImage(image.getWidth(),
image.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);

Graphics2D g = dimg.createGraphics();
g.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Src);
g.drawImage(image, null, 0, 0);
g.dispose();
for(int i = 0; i < dimg.getHeight(); i++) {
for(int j = 0; j < dimg.getWidth(); j++) {
if(dimg.getRGB(j, i) == color.getRGB()) {
dimg.setRGB(j, i, 0x00FFFFFF);
}
}
}
return dimg;
}

private BufferedImage ti(BufferedImage image, float transperancy) {

// Create the image using the
BufferedImage aimg = new BufferedImage(image.getWidth(), image.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TRANSLUCENT);
// Get the images graphics
Graphics2D g = aimg.createGraphics();
// Set the Graphics composite to Alpha
g.setComposite(AlphaComposite.getInstance(AlphaCom posite.SRC_OVER, transperancy));
// Draw the LOADED img into the prepared reciver image
g.drawImage(image, null, 0, 0);
// let go of all system resources in this Graphic
g.dispose();
// Return the image
return aimg;
}

[toadaly]

And here the part of the tree: (note: the first three lines of 'SpelElement' I don't use anymore, but needs to be there, because when I delete it it won't show the tree at all...)

This sounds to me like a build issue, where some classes were built using an older class file of SpelElement, and so when you change it, something is going haywire in the JVM. If that's what's going on, it might also be the reason your images are not properly transparent.

Another possibility is that you are not setting 'setOpaque(false)' for whatever component the snipped 'paintComponent' you have in your OP belongs to. If your component is opaque, then it's still going to be visible if you draw an invisible image over it.

[warchieflll]

Hehe, the 'setOpaque(false)' did the trick!! Thanks very much :)

Ps. The three-lines-problem was indeed a build-issue. It works fine now :)