Coloring an image

[Twitchy5]

Hello everyone, my JFrame has two panels, top and bottom, and the top contains two items, my map and the information(JTextArea). I'm currently using the "image in a JLabel" method to display the map, but now I know that isn't going to work for my purposes. I want to color the area on the map to whatever they select, but I can't use 2D graphics because then my information JTextArea will be moved to the center, and the image will cover it up. So how would I go about doing this?
If you need any more information just say so.
Thank you
~Twitch

[r035198x]

... but I can't use 2D graphics because then my information JTextArea will be moved to the center, and the image will cover it up. ...

Why is the JTextArea being moved to a position where it becomes covered by the JLabel? This should not happen if your layout is correct.

[Twitchy5]

Why is the JTextArea being moved to a position where it becomes covered by the JLabel? This should not happen if your layout is correct.

I said that I can't use "2D Graphics" which isn't a JLabel.

[r035198x]

Still you should be able to display both the 2D graphic and the textarea at the same time, right?

[Twitchy5]

I can, but like I said, when I draw the image it covers up the textarea because you can't put 2D graphics in a JPanel, or can you?

[r035198x]

Where are you currently drawing the image on?
Did you try putting it on the panel?

[Twitchy5]

I just tried to draw the image, can you put the image on a JPanel, and if you can I'm going to wonder why I was to stupid not to see that :p.

[r035198x]

Why don't you post the code where you have tried and failed by getting the overlap.

[Twitchy5]

Taking code out because it's sloved

But if you take out the JLabel, and try to draw the image it will overlap it.

[r035198x]

Let's see the code where to tried to draw the image and got the overlapping behavior.

[Twitchy5]

Well, it seems I've ran into a bit of bad luck, I lost the code with the paint method and I cannot find it on google, so what way would you draw an image on a Jpanel without being a background?

[r035198x]

You lost your code on google? No wonder some people seem to be avoiding google when you'd think that they need it badly.

[Twitchy5]

Don't get me wrong now, I code my own stuff, but to learn certain things I look on google like any other thing, and since this is my first time doing something like this, I don't know the code, and I tried looking on the API and seeing what methods do what, but sometimes you need help.

[DarrylBurke]

Lesson: Performing Custom Painting (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing)

db

[Twitchy5]

db

Thank you, sir, that was exactly what I was looking for :).

Anyways, when I do the paintComponent it is in the background, so my information box is covering up my map because there is nothing in the panel, it's just a background.

[DarrylBurke]

Then maybe you need this:
Lesson: Laying Out Components Within a Container (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing)

db

[Twitchy5]

Ok guys I got it, what I did was this:

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File(filename));
ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon(image);
JLabel map = new JLabel(img);

//to paint:
private void paintTerritories(int ter)
{
   //do whatever with the BufferedImage
   frame.update();
}

[DarrylBurke]

1. Perform custom painting in a JComponent or JPanel, not is a top-level container like JFrame (or JDialog/JApplet).

2. Call repaint(), not update() to update your GUI.

Looks like you aren't interested in going through helpful links, so you'll probably ignore this too.

db

[Twitchy5]

No, I went to the links, and they said little about how to paint a picture, and I know my layouts. And repaint() just calls the update() usually.

[Fubarable]

Hello Twitchy. This article goes into more depth on the painting of heavy weight and light weight components, gives general guidelines on painting in Swing, and gives reasons not to directly invoke update with Swing:

Painting in AWT and Swing

Much luck.