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this is my first swing program so I surely didn't invent the best solution for my prob :-)

I want to get a better way to solve the following:

I want to show an image, a colorful fancy world map of a board game, be able to scale it (smaller and bigger) and scroll it. If clicking into the map I want to get the special infos connected to the area on the map (even if scaled, scrolled...)

I did this with an ImageIcon in a JScrollPane. I prescaled the image to ten different sizes and cached those images. To scale th map I change the image of the ImageIcon. 

The parts of the map represent countries which have different attributes. To get those attributes after a click into the (maybe scaled) image I have a second "shadow" map, in which the colors represent special properties of the map.

The only way to get the colour of a pixel is using a BufferedImage (I didn't got this working, the images had errors after scaling) or a PixelGrabber.
So I created the PixelGrabbers and cached the grabbed pixels for each shadow map. This takes quite long to initialize...
That way, if I click into the scaled and scrolled image, I get the info out of the shadow map.

This all works, it just seems elegant and too much code. What may be a better way to do it? Is using a canvas better?

Thanks for some hints on this,

 Michael

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