image in glassPane

Hi,
Here is my problem. I've made a glassPane extending JPanel which overrides a JFrame and blocks all the key/mouse events. What I want to do is to set an image to be displayed in the glassPane while it is visible. I've tried all the other components(JTextField, JLabel etc) and are been displayed just fine expept one. Guess what! The one that I want to use , an image! So my question is: Is something special with the image? How can I implement what I want?
Thanks a lot

I thougt I understood a few things about swing, but after reading

"...I've made a glassPane extending JPanel which overrides a JFrame..."

I am not so sure!
With impatience I wait for a reply of one of the ranch-hands!

How did you add the image? Using an ImageIcon and JLabel, or some other way?

Post code! This works for me. Notice that you may have to explicitly reset
your glasspane to be visible after you add it.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.swing.*;
 
public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        URL url = new URL("http://today.java.net/jag/bio/JagHeadshot.jpg");
        BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(url);
        BufferedImage copy = new BufferedImage(image.getWidth(), image.getHeight(),
            BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        Graphics2D g = copy.createGraphics();
        g.setComposite(AlphaComposite.getInstance(AlphaComposite.DST_OVER, 0.3f));
        g.drawRenderedImage(image, null);
        g.dispose();
        JLabel label = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(copy));
 
        JPanel contentPane = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1,1));
        contentPane.add(new JSplitPane(JSplitPane.HORIZONTAL_SPLIT,
            new JTree(), new JScrollPane(new JTable(50,5))));
 
        JFrame f = new JFrame();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.setContentPane(contentPane);
        f.setGlassPane(label);
        label.setVisible(true);
 
        f.setSize(600,400);
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }
}

Sorry if I wasn't quite clear.I didn't mean to make you forget what you already know!
Well, I'm using a class gor the glassPane that I found in another site and it works just fine for me except from the detail with the image.
The class is:

import javax.swing.*; 
import javax.swing.text.*; 
import java.awt.*; 
import java.awt.event.*; 
 
public class GlassPane extends JPanel implements MouseListener 
{ 
    //RootPaneContainer interface 
    private RootPaneContainer m_rootPane = null; 
     
    //Stores the previous Glass Pane Component 
    private Component m_prevGlassPane = null; 
    private boolean m_handleMouseEvents = false; 
    private boolean m_drawing = false;     
 
    /** 
    * Constructor 
    * 
    * @param title 
    * @exception 
    */ 
    public GlassPane() 
    { 
    } 
     
    //Mouse Events 
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e)  
    { 
        //sound beep 
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();  
    } 
     
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e)  
    { 
    } 
     
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)  
    { 
    } 
     
    public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e)  
    { 
    } 
     
    public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e)  
    { 
    } 
     
    /** 
    * Set the glassPane 
    */ 
    public void setGlassPane(RootPaneContainer rootPane) 
    { 
        m_rootPane = rootPane; 
         
        //store the current glass pane 
        m_prevGlassPane = m_rootPane.getGlassPane(); 
         
        //set this as new glass pane 
        m_rootPane.setGlassPane(this); 
         
        //set opaque to false, i.e. make transparent 
        setOpaque(false); 
    } 
     
    /** 
    * remove the glassPane 
    */ 
    public void removeGlassPane() 
    { 
        //set the glass pane visible false 
        setVisible(false); 
         
        //reset the previous glass pane 
        m_rootPane.setGlassPane(m_prevGlassPane); 
    } 
     
    /** 
    * Set the handleMoveEvents 
    * This will add the mouseListener and all the event will be 
    * trapped my the glass pane 
    */ 
    public void setHandleMouseEvents(boolean handleMouseEvents) 
    { 
        if (m_handleMouseEvents == handleMouseEvents) 
        { 
            //ignore if the state is same 
            return; 
        } 
         
        m_handleMouseEvents = handleMouseEvents; 
         
        if (m_handleMouseEvents) 
        { 
            //add this as mouse event listener and trap all the 
            //mouse events 
            addMouseListener(this); 
        } 
        else 
        { 
            //remove mouse events listener 
            removeMouseListener(this); 
        } 
         
        //This is important otherwise the glass pane will no catch events 
        setVisible(true); 
    } 
         
    /** 
    * setDrawing 
    * 
    */ 
    public void setDrawing(boolean drawing) 
    { 
        m_drawing = drawing; 
         
        //This is important otherwise the glass pane will not be visible 
        setVisible(true); 
         
        //Call repaint 
        repaint(); 
    } 
     
    /** 
    * get the drawing state 
    */ 
    public boolean getDrawing() 
    { 
        return m_drawing; 
    } 
     
    /** 
    * Handling Paint 
    */ 
    public void paint(Graphics g) 
    { 
        super.paint(g); 
         
        if (m_drawing) 
        { 
            g.setColor(Color.cyan); 
            g.fillRoundRect(100, 100, 250, 200, 40, 40); 
                         
            g.setFont(new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD, 12)); 
            g.setColor(Color.black); 
             
            g.drawString("This example is from ******.com", 110, 210); 
        } 
    } 
}

in the constructor of the main frame

I guess I have to change the paint method so that my image to be shown (the image is in the same folder as the rest of the .java files)
I hope to be more clear this time.
Thanks in advance

At last I found my error by reading some other topics. Thanks anyway