whats wrong with Jimi

Hallo,
this code opens a image, writes text on it and saves it to a file. But somethin is wrong, i can't see the text on the saved image

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Ben

public static void main(String[] args)
    throws JimiException, java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException {
    if (args.length < 2) {
        System.err.println("Parameters: <source> <dest>");
    } else {
        Frame frame = null;
        Graphics g = null;
        int h = 0;
        int w = 0;
        Image os = null;
        try {
            frame = new Frame();
            frame.addNotify();
            Image image = Jimi.getImage(args[0]);
            w = 640;
            h = 480;
            System.out.println(w);
            System.out.println(h);
            os = frame.createImage(w, h);
            g = os.getGraphics();
            g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, frame);
            g.setFont(new Font("Times New Roman", Font.BOLD, 20));
            g.setColor(Color.black);
            g.drawString("bla bla bla", 10, 20);
            g.dispose();
            
            Jimi.putImage("image/jpg", image, args[1]);
            frame.removeNotify();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    } 
}

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: Ben Klug ]

Need more input.
Whats a 'Jimi'?

I don't know anything about Jimi, but I look at your code and you are doing this:

Have "Jimi" read an image

Create a Graphics object

Write the image to that graphics

Write some text to that graphics

Dispose of the graphics (bye-bye)

Have "Jimi" write the original image back to a file

Maybe you want to extract the image+text from the graphics and write that out to a file or something.

Hi,
sorry, Jimi is a class library for managing images from sun.
Dave, I've tried to first save the image and then call dispose(). It didn't work too.
thanks
Ben
[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: Ben Klug ]

I've downloaded and had a look at Jimi. Looks nice, I might have to use it myself.
It does look like your are over complicating things with all of the 'Frame' stuff.
You probably want to do something more like this:

get Jimi to load the image

get a Graphics context for the image

write the text to the graphics context

use Jimi to save the modified Image as the required type

(close the Graphics context and any other resources)

Without playing I can't help more, but I hope this helps.
Dave.

Thanks David,
I've tried to handle th Image like this:

but I get the following error:

I think the problem is not Jimi, the Problem is getting the Graphics-Object from the image.

Ben
[ September 13, 2002: Message edited by: Ben Klug ]
[ September 13, 2002: Message edited by: Ben Klug ]