How to get rendered objects in a form of image from the canvas/Panel?

**ravi.joshi53** · 01-12-2012, 11:29 PM

Hi, I have drawn some simple objects in both a canvas and a Panel.MyPanel class is

Java Code:

public class myPanel extends Panel implements Runnable

Now I need to get the screenshot of the rendered objects. I was trying to get screenshot by the following code:

Java Code:

Rectangle rectangle = myCanvas.getBounds();
BufferedImage screenShot = new Robot().createScreenCapture(rectangle);

But the second line is throwing runtime exception as

Java Code:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

What is the other solution for getting the image from canvas/Panel?

Thank you.

**Fubarable** · 01-12-2012, 11:48 PM

Any errors when you compile this code?

Also, have you tried creating a BufferedImage of the size of interest, getting a Graphics object from it, and calling paint on the Panel, passing in your BufferedImage's Graphics object as the paint method's parameter? Don't forget to dispose of the Graphics object when done though.

**ravi.joshi53** · 01-13-2012, 09:46 AM

Hey Fubarable,
How to use the Graphics object in this context? Can you please elaborate it? Thank you in advance.

**Tolls** · 01-13-2012, 12:19 PM

The Graphics object from the BufferedImage providea a way to draw to that image.
By passing it into the paint() method of a Component (in this case a JPanel) you get the Component to draw itself to the BufferedImage.
You can then save that BufferedImage to disk (using the ImageIO utility class usually).

**camickr** · 01-13-2012, 06:05 PM

Screen Image « Java Tips Weblog uses both of the approach described here depending on which method you invoke. The BufferedImage code is more complicated than described above because it tries to handle painting the component whether it is visible in the GUI or not.

**ravi.joshi53** · 01-14-2012, 04:51 PM

I was using the following code:

Java Code:

Rectangle rectangle = myCanvas.getBounds();
Image screenShot = <Image>new Robot().createScreenCapture(rectangle);
JPanel myPanel=new JPanel();
JLabel img = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(screenShot));
myPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
myPanel.add(img, BorderLayout.CENTER);