Refeshing image in JInternalFrame

[MasterDeveloper]

Hello everyone,
I am building a program in which there is refresh the image continuously in JInternalFrame. I have been using timer for continuous updation but the frame is still showing the image captured at the startup of program.
Please help
Thanks in advance.

[Fubarable]

you may wish to post your code that's doing the refreshing. Most of us are terrible at guessing what your problem is without pertinent code.

[MasterDeveloper]

My code snippet is:

    public void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
		 Timer timer = new Timer(3000, new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
		String comp =(String)jComboBox1.getSelectedItem();
	   ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon(comp+"resized.jpg");
       JLabel lab = new JLabel();
       lab.setIcon(ii);

       jInternalFrame1.setTitle(comp); 
       org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout jInternalFrame1Layout = new org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout(jInternalFrame1.getContentPane());
        jInternalFrame1.getContentPane().setLayout(jInternalFrame1Layout);
        jInternalFrame1Layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            jInternalFrame1Layout.createParallelGroup(org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.LEADING)
            .add(0, 300, Short.MAX_VALUE)
            .add(lab, org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 333, org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)

        );
        jInternalFrame1Layout.setVerticalGroup(
            jInternalFrame1Layout.createParallelGroup(org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.LEADING)
            .add(0, 240, Short.MAX_VALUE)
			.add(lab, org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)

        );

	  jInternalFrame1.setVisible(true);
      jInternalFrame1.revalidate();
      jInternalFrame1.repaint();
	  }    
       }); 

		  timer.start();
	}

[DarrylBurke]

Aw, c'mon. What's your problem, that you don't know what code is pertinent to your problem or that you don't care? You post a whole lot of GroupLayout code that has nothing to do with loading and displaying images, and only one line that IS possibly related to the problem, that too without a hint of what might be contained in the variable "comp" and where and how (and whether) the variable is updated.

I will say this however: if you're trying to reload the SAME image file (which is concurrently modified by some other means) in your running program, then the behavior you describe is expected, as the ImageIcon constructor that takes a String parameter loads the Image via Toolkit, which caches the image and doesn't load it from disk repeatedly.

If that guess is correct, you have two options:
1) Load the image via ImageIO#read and use the ImageIcon constructor that takes an Image

Image image = ImageIO.read(new File(comp+"resized.jpg"));
ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon(image);

OR

2) Invoke the flush() method on the ImageIcon's Image whenever you want it to update from disk.

ImageIcon  io = new ImageIcon(comp+"resized.jpg"); // once only
:
:
// to reload the image from disk
io.getImage().flush();

In the second case you don't need to setIcon on the label repeatedly, but you may need to invoke repaint().

I would also recommend that you learn to code your own layouts, relying on a visual designer to do everything for you severely limits what can be done.

db

[MasterDeveloper]

Thank you very much. Now my code is displaying refreshed image.

[MasterDeveloper]

Hello,
Now the problem is i am using six of this kind of function in my program.So at a time only one image refreshing in the internal frame and others are not working. Also the layout of whole program disturbs. What should i do?Sometime blank image also appears in frame. I am using another program for updating image in the folder.

[MasterDeveloper]

Can anyone got the solution. Please help.

[Fubarable]

The main solution is to study the Sun Swing tutorials. You will find them very helpful and will give you the knowledge you need to code Swing or at least know what is the relevant code so you can post it.