How to use image as button

[mangesh.gho]

I'm trying to design screen as specified. i searched a lot but didn't found proper help.
I'm beginner in java so please explain me the simplest way. the images used are in .png format & are transparent. i looks very bad when used over jbutton so i want to use those images work as buttons. If not possible, can we have links through those images? how? which way will be simpler? (by clicking these images, i want to open new frames. please tell me how to do that..)
Thank you.

[Norm]

by clicking these images, i want to

Look at using Mouse listeners. If you know where your images are, you can map the mouse click's location to an image. You would need to build a list of where the shapes are located that you could search with the mouse click's location.

[camickr]

You can add an image to a button. Then you can use:

button.setBorderPainted(false);
button.setContentAreaFilled(false);

[Norm]

Do you want rectangular areas to click on?
Or do you want to be able to click on the shape of the images?

Can buttons have non-rectangular areas for clicking?

[mangesh.gho]

Actually it would be better if i could implement button with shape of that image but i don't want to make this thing complicated so if those two methods mentioned above, does the required job then i 'll be fine for me.. Any other suggestions?

[camickr]

Can buttons have non-rectangular areas for clicking?

I guess you didn't check out my suggestion in this posting: Custom JButton :-)

Actually it would be better if i could implement button with shape of that image but i don't want to make this thing complicated

The easy part is using the button. The hard part is implementing the Shape to use for click detection.

Any other suggestions?

Did you actually try using a button? It will be rectangular like the first suggestion unless you override the contains() method as I suggested.