Thread: Can't Import AWT Image into custom JPanel

I don't think it might be possible without ImageIcons, but you can without JLabels or JButtons or any of that sort.

There's several paint methods for each type of GUI. One of those might involve painting an image.

In fact, paint(Graphics g) has, in the Graphics class, a method to paint an Image to a JFrame. It probably has one for a JPanel too. However, you do need an Image or an ImageIcon or an Icon object. That part I can't figure out how to get around.

However, to call, drawImage(), you'd need to have an ImageObserver object too.

Thanks for the help, however, I am getting a type mismatch error.
Its telling me that the getClass().getResource() is returning a URL and not an image.
I figure now is a good time to share code. (I put some stuff in comments for clarification...)

import java.awt.Image;
 
public class Deck
{
int VALUE;
String TYPE;
String FACE;
boolean DEALT;
Image PICTURE;
private boolean SHOWING;
 
    //The constructor gives each card its value, face, etc.
 
    public Deck(int value)
    {
        DEALT = false; 
        SHOWING = false; 
        switch(value%4)
        {
        case 0: TYPE = "Diamonds";break;
        case 1: TYPE = "Hearts";break;
        case 2: TYPE = "Spades";break;
        case 3: TYPE = "Clubs";break;
        default : TYPE = null;break;
        }
 
        switch(value%13)
        {
        case 0: VALUE = 10; FACE = "King";break;
        case 12: VALUE = 10; FACE = "Queen";break;
        case 11: VALUE = 10; FACE = "Jack";break;
        case 1: VALUE = 11; FACE = "Ace";break;
        default : VALUE = value%13; FACE = (""+value%13);break;
        }   
 
    }
 
  //I want the deal method to assign each card a picture ONLY when it is currently in play. I thought this     
  //would help the program run quicker as I don't have to import and keep 52 images in memory. Also, I  
  //need to sometimes assign certain cards a unique image of being face down, which will be accomplished 
  //by this if statement
 
 
    public void deal(boolean b, boolean vis)
    {
    DEALT = b;
    setVisible(vis);
 
    //My images are in a folder called "Cards". Also, I don;t know very much about
    //file management, and I'm using a pretty barebones IDE. (BlueJ)
    //My .java files are just kind of sitting in a folder called "Blackjack", "Cards" is located within "Blackjack".
 
    PICTURE = this.getClass().getResource("Cards/clubs-3-75.png"); 
 
         if(SHOWING == false)
        {}
        else
        {}
    }
 
    public void setValue(int x)
    {
    VALUE = x; 
    }
 
    public boolean getVisible()
    {return SHOWING;}
 
    public void setVisible(boolean b)
    {SHOWING = b;}
 
    public String toString()
    {
    return ""+FACE+" of "+TYPE;
    }
 
}

Sorry, that was my fault...I edited the code...you should be able to read the returned URL using ImageIO.