So I am trying to get a web image to display on screen to cover chatbox and use a background image I have uploaded to imgur. However, when I have the code in the script it gives me an error. I am using this method:

 

private final Image background = getImage("url here");

And this in the onPaint:

g.drawImage(background, 1, 1, null);

 

But it says the getImage is not recognized. I tried a java exaple to call the method explicitly "Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage"

with no luck. Does anyone have a 'best practice' to pulling a web image as a background for an onpaint?

So I am trying to get a web image to display on screen to cover chatbox and use a background image I have uploaded to imgur. However, when I have the code in the script it gives me an error. I am using this method:

private final Image background = getImage("url here");

And this in the onPaint:

g.drawImage(background, 1, 1, null);

But it says the getImage is not recognized. I tried a java exaple to call the method explicitly "Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage"

with no luck. Does anyone have a 'best practice' to pulling a web image as a background for an onpaint?

Did you even define the method getImage?

I was just calling on the java.awt.Toolkit getImage method. I tried converting the string to a URL for the parameters for that as well.

 

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Toolkit.html#getImage(java.lang.String)

 

I was just calling on the java.awt.Toolkit getImage method. I tried converting the string to a URL for the parameters for that as well.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Toolkit.html#getImage(java.lang.String)

Try Image image = ImageIO.read(URL);

Perfect, that worked exactly like I wanted!

private String sourceImage = "URL HERE";
private Image background = null;


        try {
            URL url = new URL(sourceImage);
            background = ImageIO.read(url);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }