Graphic Java™ 1.2, Volume I: AWT, Third Edition

Chapter 5. Loading and Displaying Images

• The Image Class and the Image Package

• Image Producers and Image Observers

  - Asynchronous Image Production

  - ImageProducer

  - ImageObserver

• Loading and Displaying Images

• Differences Between Applets and Applications

• Waiting for an Image to Load

• Painting Images a Scanline at a Time

  - Eliminating the Flicker

• MediaTracker

• Animated GIFS

• AWT Components as Image Observers

• Creating Images

• Loading Images as Resources

• Summary

The AWT provides support for loading and displaying GIF and JPEG images in addition to support for animating multframe images such as animated GIFs. Images are loaded and displayed in an asynchronous manner—as a result there are a number of techniques for loading and displaying images, which we will thoroughly ...