JFrame image background

**851marc** · 03-09-2010, 05:32 PM

Hi, I am trying to put a background to my JFrame I have a label witch contain the image but I don't find the way to set it as the backgroup of my JFrame so now I can't add any component in front of my Label. How can I do that ?

Thx for your help.

**Steve11235** · 03-09-2010, 05:34 PM

Look at the Sun Java Tutorial for Swing, go to the part about layered pane.

**851marc** · 03-09-2010, 05:49 PM

Is there any way to do it cliking on something in NetBeans?

**Steve11235** · 03-09-2010, 06:05 PM

I assume you are using Matisse, which is included in NetBeans. I don't mean to be negative, but Swing is made for creating heavy-duty applications. That means you have to know how the internals work and to write somewhat low-level code. It is not a lot of code, but you have to do it right, or you will end up with, at best, an applications that is slow and filled with problems. Do it right, and Swing rocks. Please read the Swing tutorial, from the start.

**851marc** · 03-09-2010, 06:12 PM

Yeah, I start redaing it and trying understanding how it work xD and I look into NetBeans generated code and this is wierd plus one of the method that work in eclipse dosen't work into netBeans.

Point origin = new Point(10, 20);
label = createColoredLabel(" ",java.awt.Color.BLACK, origin);
jLayeredPane1.add(label);

createColoredLabel() dosen't work because of a
"Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code"

EDIT: are you sure I can use that for a picture because in the tutorial they are only talking about color.

**camickr** · 03-09-2010, 06:27 PM

I have a label witch contain the image but I don't find the way to set it as the backgroup of my JFrame so now I can't add any component in front of my Label. How can I do that ?

Background Panel shows you an easy way to do this.