Displaying Image in Applet

Applet is mostly used in games and animation. For this purpose image is required to be displayed. The java.awt.Graphics class provide a method drawImage() to display the image.

Syntax of drawImage() method:

public abstract boolean drawImage(Image img, int x, int y, ImageObserver observer): is used draw the specified image.

How to get the object of Image:

The java.applet.Applet class provides getImage() method that returns the object of Image.
Syntax:

public Image getImage(URL u, String image){}

Other required methods of Applet class to display image:

public URL getDocumentBase(): is used to return the URL of the document in which

applet is embedded.
2. public URL getCodeBase(): is used to return the base URL.

Example of displaying image in applet:

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class DisplayImage extends Applet {
Image picture;
public void init() {
picture = getImage(getDocumentBase(),"sonoo.jpg");
}
public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.drawImage(picture, 30,30, this);
}
}

myapplet.html

<html>
<body>
<applet code="DisplayImage.class" width="300" height="300">
</applet>
</body>
</html>

CORE JAVA

Friday, 27 March 2015

Java Applet