Displaying an Image

[Hockeyfreak889]

I recently started learning java and am trying to make a simple GUI program that takes in a location of an image and then displays the it.

What would be the best way to do this??

[BestJewSinceJC]

With Google.

April Fools!

Read this tutorial, I think it is what you are looking for. And I also think I linked someone to it maybe a day ago. http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/images/index.html

[Ezzaral]

Here's another option as well, using ImageIcon and JLabel:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/icon.html

[Hockeyfreak889]

haha i saw that tuturial using google earlier today. However i didnt really understand how the code it gives you works (yes i read the descriptions)

To load an image (which is the part i dont quite get) it gives you the following code:

try {
URL url = new URL(getCodeBase(), "strawberry.jpg");
img = ImageIO.read(url);
} catch (IOException e) {
}

if the folder the image is in is (C:\Users\General Use\Pictures) and the name of the file is "0118080951" where do these things go in the above code? i thought the C:\Users\General Use\Pictures would go in the URL place but i tried that and it didnt work

[BestJewSinceJC]

URLs, unless what I've grown up knowing and loving is no longer sacred, point to resources on the interwebzzzz

[Ezzaral]

img = ImageIO.read(new File("C:\\Users\\General Use\\Pictures\\0118080951"));

should work fine.

[Hockeyfreak889]

ok thank you

[Hockeyfreak889]

never mind i figured out my problem... forgot the .jpg at the end of the file name.