change panel background at runtime

[cahyadiakbar]

Please help me. I want to change my panel background at runtime but the image isn't show directly. this is my snippet code:

public class GpanelBack extends JPanel {

private Image image;

public GpanelBack() {
image = new ImageIcon("last/back.jpg").getImage();
}

public void setImgBack() {
image = new ImageIcon("last/back.jpg").getImage();
repaint();
}

@Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D gd = (Graphics2D) g.create();
gd.drawImage(image, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), null);
gd.dispose();
}
}

, in jframe I have created the methode to read image from disk and saving it to "last/back.jpg" . after that I use this code to repaint the panel background:
jback.setImgBack();
jback.repaint();

NB: jback is instant of GPanelBack.

is anything wrong with my code ??

[DarrylBurke]

An easier way to display an image is as an ImageIcon set to a JLabel. If you really need to use a JPanel and a paintComponent(...) override, try loding the image using ImageIO#read(...) which blocks until the image is fully read from file, unlike the Toolkit method used by ImageIcon to load the image.

All else aside, it's rather silly to construct an ImageIcon just to extract its image when there are other classes (ImgeIO, Toolkit) which have methods to load an image without incurring the overhead of ImageIcon.

db

[cahyadiakbar]

Ok. Thanx for your advice. I will try to use ImageIO in my code.