What am I doing wrong here?

[Alan Smith]

Hi,

I have just started playing around with Java canvas class to draw graphics but I cant figure out why I cant't draw an image from file. I have looked on a good few sites now and they all say the same thing; I have done what they ask, it just aint working. I want to program my own clock and am using a jpeg image of a handless clock for the background. ill just move the arms programmatically. Heres my canvas class:

public class Clock extends Canvas{

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	public Clock(){
		repaint(); // might not need this!
	}

	public void paint(Graphics g){ 
		
                /*these draw fine
		g.drawLine(30, 30, 80, 80); 
		g.drawRect(20, 150, 100, 100);
		g.fillRect(20, 150, 100, 100); 
		g.fillOval(150, 20, 100, 100);
		*/

		Image img1 = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("C:\\Users\\esmiala\\Pictures\\Program Pictures\\clock.jpeg"); //image to load and draw
		g.drawImage(img1, 10, 10, this);

	}
}

In my gui window class I simply add this canvas component to the frame (jpanel works too) and the line, rect, etc draw fine as a test. The image doesn't though. What am I doing wrong?? Any help would be appreciated. its more than likely something stupid!

edit: when I print out the draw method to the console (System.out.println(g.drawImage(img1, 10, 10, this));) it returns false. API tells me something about the image not loading... if that helps.

Thanks.

I got it. Java doesn't recognise the "jpeg" extension, recognises "jpg". Lesson learned!!

[Edit - added code tags - MAB]

[Randall Twede]

hmmm thats strange. the other day i changed a .jpg to a .txt just to see if ImageIO could still read it, and it did. i guess its because i got my image in a different way using JFileChooser and ImageIO.

[Wendy Gibbons]

can i be the one to say "please use a meaningful subject line, of course something is going wrong or you wouldn't be here"