Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Andrew Thompson" Subject: Re: Trying to put a backg Message-ID: <7e0c42d4def4d@uwe> X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.gui Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 24 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:42:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303918938 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:42:18 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:42:18 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:2989 To: comp.lang.java.gui Sabine Dinis Blochberger wrote: >> >Trying to put a background image in a JFrame .. >In option two, adding one JPanel with BorderLayout.EAST, the other with >BorderLayout.SOUTH, all I get is a tiny square off the window bounds. Images load asynchonously, so maybe the image is returning a -1,-1 size at time of pack(). One way to fix that is to use a MediaTracker. Knute has some good examples of loading and displaying images, here.. -- Andrew Thompson http://www.physci.org/ Message posted via JavaKB.com http://www.javakb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/java-gui/200801/1 --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24