Background image in a pane

[jeremytaffy]

How can I set the background image of a JPanel using a gif or jpg file?

 

[OttSens]

Yes but you have to take care of drawing it.
You need to subclass JPanel and override the
paint method. Also if it's a tile you need to take
care of drawing it multiple times to cover the whole
panel. If this is the case this should be done using
double buffering. (ie Drawing in memory and then putting
the result on the panel)

Simplest.....

public class myPanel extend JPanel
{
public Image back;
public myPanel ()
{
super();
MediaTracker tracker;
tracker=new MediaTracker(this);
back = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("somefile.jpg"
tracker.addImage(back, 1);
try
{
tracker.waitForAll();
if (tracker.isErrorAny())
System.out.println("Error loading Image"
}
repaint();
}
public static void paint(Graphics g)
{
g.drawImage(0,0,this);
}
}