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Putting a JPEG in a JFrame form

I've written a basic JFrame form, and I want to put a small JPEG image on/in it to "jazz it up". How?

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Where do I specify the path to the image in your code "objects"? Also, when I compile it, will the JPEG be incorporated into the .exe, or will I have to distribute the picture with my program?

Mick Barry

you can load the image using the Toolkit getImage method.

Image i = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(imageurl);

Java doesn't produce an exe (though there are 3rd party products that provide varying levels of support for generating an exe, but thats a different story), you will need to distrubute the image with you program. You can get the url from your application jar (or classpath) for the image using:

URL imageurl = getClass().getResource(imagename);

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Mick Barry

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