Nonmodal window showing image

[Norm Radder]

I have an app that displays a question in a textarea and choices of answers in a list. Some of the questions have an image associated with them.
I don't normally use Swing classes, but in this case I thought they'd be useful.

What class(es) can I use to show an image in a non-modal window?
I want to display the window with an image when the associated question is being asked and dispose of it when the user moves on to the next question.

Thanks,
Norm

[Jeff Albertson]

Use javax.swing.JLabel + javax.swing.ImageIcon:

import java.net.*;
import javax.swing.*;
 
public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {
        URL url = new URL("http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/jag/SouthParkJAG-small.png");
        JLabel label = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(url));
 
        //demo
        final JFrame f = new JFrame();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.getContentPane().add(label);
        f.pack();
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
                f.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

This should probably be in the Swing forum.

[Norm Radder]

Jeff,
Thanks!
The only change I needed was to use Class getResource() to run it from a jar file. And to remove the Exit on close.