How to resize images to fit JLabel?

[Krooger]

Hello, I need to load an image and use it in multiple places on my GUI but at different sizes.

So far I am just loading it with

ImageIcon testIcon = new ImageIcon("images/testCard.jpg");

Then I make a JLabel and size it to what ever size I need then use:

myJLabel.setIcon(testIcon);

Then im left with a proper sized JLabel but only shows a portion of the image.
How do I go about resizing this image to (in this case) shrink and resize to the size of the JLabel. I was looking through the ImageIcon java docs but didnt see anything about resizing.

Thanks for any tips.

[camickr]

> Then I make a JLabel and size it to what ever size I need then use:

Thats the reverse of what you should be doing. You should be resizing the image and then let the label size itself based on the image.

You can use image.getScaledImage(...) for the different size images.

[Krooger]

Thank you, worked great!

[DarrylBurke]

1. Don't hijack an old thread.
2. Don't double post the same question.
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