How to scale an image to desired size?

[asifzbaig]

Hello all,
As the heading says, i have a label in which i want to show a picture, i have take the picture as an inputStream from the database and put it as an image icon on a label.

my code is:

/**
*   Setting icon on label imageLabel
*
*/
if (imageInputStream != null){
            try {
                Image image = ImageIO.read(admin.image);
                imageLabel.setIcon(new ImageIcon(image));
            } catch (IOException ex) {
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "Error: "+ex.getMessage(), "Error in reading Image", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
            }
        }

But if i have an image of size larger than my label size than only some part is visible in the viewport of label..
What i want to do is to automatically scale the image to desired label size without distorting image as much as possible..Also the image taken as input is not of same size..
How can i achieve this??
Any help? suggestions? tutorials? Articles?

[DarrylBurke]

First off, if you use an appropriate layout the JLabel will be sized appropriately based on the size of the Icon.

If due to other constraints you need the image to be displayed at a fixed size, it may be better to achieve this via custom painting on a JComponent or JPanel. Choose a suitable overload of Graphics#drawImage(...).
Lesson: Performing Custom Painting (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing)

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[asifzbaig]

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

That lesson will help me for other stuffs in my project, for now particularly, i define a method to get sclaed image of whatever image i get from database to desired scale:

public static BufferedImage getScaledImage(BufferedImage pImage, int pWidth, int pHeight)
    {
        int type = pImage.getType() == 0 ? BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB : pImage.getType();
        BufferedImage resizedImage = new BufferedImage(pWidth, pHeight, type);
        Graphics2D graphics = resizedImage.createGraphics();
        graphics.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Src);

        graphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
        graphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
        graphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);

        graphics.drawImage(pImage, 0, 0, pWidth, pHeight, null);
        graphics.dispose();

        return resizedImage;
    }

Any other suggestions for above method?
Thanks!

[camickr]

Image.getScaledInstance(...);

[DarrylBurke]

Here's an article about image scaling: The Perils of Image.getScaledInstance() | Java.net

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