I am currently creating a GUI for a game. I am currently loading an image using JLabel onto my JPanel, I was wondering whether it would be possible to add buttons on various parts of the image e.g. (5,7) and (12,12).
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If you wish to have JButtons appear over your image, a better approach would be to override the paintComponent of the JPanel and use drawImage to draw the image similar to this example . This will allow you to add components to the container.
Absolute positioning(null layout) is generally frowned upon for setting component locations, however. This DragLayout should be a better substitute taking care of component sizing.
DragLayout was designed to replace a null layout. It will respect the location of a component. By default it will use the preferred size of the component to determines its size. Finally, it will automatically calculate the preferred size of the Container.
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Thanks, your answer has been very useful – nsc010 Feb 02 '13 at 16:43
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@Reimeus `JLayeredPane` not useful in overlapping? – joey rohan Feb 02 '13 at 16:59
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@joeyrohan This could be achieved using `JLayeredPane`, however IMHO using a background image thru `paintComponent` is a simpler solution (in terms of implementation & possible scaling). – Reimeus Feb 02 '13 at 17:02