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Make ZoomBox around cursor disappear when JCheckBox unchecked

I used the first answer of Zoom box for area around mouse location on screen to create a Zoom Box Window around mouse location that would zoom into images as the mouse moves.
Now, I wanna know how to activate this Zoom Box View when a JCheckBox is checked and desactivate it if it's unchecked.
I modified the classes ZoomBoxWindow and ZoomPane written by #MadProgrammer by adding the lines of code for activating and desactivating the ZoomBoxView, but this doesn't seem to work. Could you please tell me what am I doing wrong?
Here is the code:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import java.awt.event.ItemListener;
import java.awt.event.ItemEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
public class ZoomPane extends JPanel {
protected static final int ZOOM_AREA = 40;
private JComponent parent;
private JWindow popup;
private Boolean zoomBoxActivated = false;
private BufferedImage buffer;
private float zoomLevel = 2f;
public ZoomPane(JComponent parent, Boolean zba) {
this.parent = parent;
this.zoomBoxActivated=zba;
popup = new JWindow();
popup.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
popup.add(this);
popup.pack();
popup.setAlwaysOnTop(true);
MouseAdapter ma = new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
Point p = e.getPoint();
Point pos = e.getLocationOnScreen();
updateBuffer(p);
popup.setLocation(pos.x - 20, pos.y + 20);
repaint();
}
#Override
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
if(zoomBoxActivated){
popup.setVisible(true);
}
else {
popup.setVisible(false);
}
}
#Override
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {
popup.setVisible(false);
}
};
parent.addMouseListener(ma);
parent.addMouseMotionListener(ma);
}
protected void updateBuffer(Point p) {
int width = Math.round(ZOOM_AREA);
int height = Math.round(ZOOM_AREA);
buffer = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics2D g2d = buffer.createGraphics();
AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();
int xPos = (ZOOM_AREA / 2) - p.x;
int yPos = (ZOOM_AREA / 2) - p.y;
if (xPos > 0) {
xPos = 0;
}
if (yPos > 0) {
yPos = 0;
}
if ((xPos * -1) + ZOOM_AREA > parent.getWidth()) {
xPos = (parent.getWidth() - ZOOM_AREA) * -1;
}
if ((yPos * -1) + ZOOM_AREA > parent.getHeight()) {
yPos = (parent.getHeight()- ZOOM_AREA) * -1;
}
at.translate(xPos, yPos);
g2d.setTransform(at);
parent.paint(g2d);
g2d.dispose();
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(Math.round(ZOOM_AREA * zoomLevel), Math.round(ZOOM_AREA * zoomLevel));
}
#Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
if (buffer != null) {
AffineTransform at = g2d.getTransform();
g2d.setTransform(AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(zoomLevel, zoomLevel));
g2d.drawImage(buffer, 0, 0, this);
g2d.setTransform(at);
}
g2d.setColor(Color.RED);
g2d.drawRect(0, 0, getWidth() - 1, getHeight() - 1);
g2d.dispose();
}
}
public class TestPane extends JPanel {
private BufferedImage img;
public TestPane() {
try {
img = ImageIO.read(new File("satellite-image-of-spain.jpg"));
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return img == null ? new Dimension(200, 200) : new Dimension(img.getWidth(), img.getHeight());
}
#Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
if (img != null) {
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
int x = (getWidth() - img.getWidth()) / 2;
int y = (getHeight() - img.getHeight()) / 2;
g2d.drawImage(img, x, y, this);
g2d.dispose();
}
}
}
public class ZoomBoxWindow {
ZoomPane zoomPane;
public static void main(String[] args) {
new ZoomBoxWindow();
}
public ZoomBoxWindow() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
TestPane pane = new TestPane();
zoomPane = new ZoomPane(pane, false);
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
JCheckBox zoomBoxChkBox = new JCheckBox("Zoom Box");
zoomBoxChkBox.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_Z);
zoomBoxChkBox.setSelected(false);
zoomBoxChkBox.addItemListener(new ItemListener() {
#Override
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if ( e.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED) {
zoomPane = new ZoomPane(pane,true);
}
else {
zoomPane = new ZoomPane(pane,false);
}
}
});
buttonPanel.add(zoomBoxChkBox);
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.add(pane,BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.add(buttonPanel, BorderLayout.PAGE_START);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
}
Thank you for your answer.

So,
zoomBoxChkBox.addItemListener(new ItemListener() {
#Override
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (e.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED) {
zoomPane = new ZoomPane(pane, true);
} else {
zoomPane = new ZoomPane(pane, false);
}
}
});
Isn't really doing anything, you're just create a new instance of ZoomPane. Apart from adding a bunch of MouseListeners to the parent component, which could cause you no end of issues.
Instead, I'd add a new method to ZoomPane
public class ZoomPane extends JPanel {
private boolean isAutoDisplayEnabled = false;
//...
public void setShowZoomPopup(boolean show) {
popup.setVisible(show);
isAutoDisplayEnabled = show;
}
This now allows you to control the visibility state of the popup externally.
Now, the isAutoDisplayEnabled flag is simply used to determine if the popup should be displayed when the mouseEntered event is triggered, for example...
MouseAdapter ma = new MouseAdapter() {
//...
#Override
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
if (isAutoDisplayEnabled) {
popup.setVisible(true);
}
}
Now your ItemListener can control the state of the popup
zoomBoxChkBox.addItemListener(new ItemListener() {
#Override
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (e.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED) {
zoomPane.setShowZoomPopup(true);
} else {
zoomPane.setShowZoomPopup(false);
}
}
});
You could also add a check to see if the mouse is currently within the bounds of the image pane, so you don't show it needlessly, but I'll leave that to you to try and figure out ;)
the popup is flickering as it is being moved
This is, because every time the popup is displayed, it triggers a mouseExit event, which triggers the popup to be hidden, which then triggers a mouseEnter event and so on and so forth...
This is a slightly different take on the same idea, but, instead of a separate window, this paints the zoom as part of the image pane itself.
This does mean that, if the zoom falls beyond the bounds of the panel, it will be truncated, but I've spent some time so that you can resize the panel larger than the image and the zoom effect will still work
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.geom.Area;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
public class ZoomBoxWindow {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new ZoomBoxWindow();
}
public ZoomBoxWindow() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
TestPane pane = new TestPane();
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.add(pane);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class TestPane extends JPanel {
private BufferedImage img;
private Point zoomPoint;
private boolean zoomEnabled = true;
private int zoomArea = 80;
private float zoom = 2.0f;
public TestPane() {
try {
img = ImageIO.read(new File("/Volumes/Big Fat Extension/Dropbox/MegaTokyo/_cg_1009___Afraid___by_Serena_Clearwater.png"));
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
addMouseMotionListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
zoomPoint = e.getPoint();
repaint();
}
});
addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
repaint();
}
#Override
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {
zoomPoint = null;
repaint();
}
});
}
public float getZoom() {
return zoom;
}
public void setZoom(float zoom) {
this.zoom = zoom;
repaint();
}
public int getZoomArea() {
return zoomArea;
}
public void setZoomArea(int zoomArea) {
this.zoomArea = zoomArea;
repaint();
}
public boolean isZoomEnabled() {
return zoomEnabled;
}
public void setZoomEnabled(boolean zoomEnabled) {
this.zoomEnabled = zoomEnabled;
repaint();
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return img == null ? new Dimension(200, 200) : new Dimension(img.getWidth(), img.getHeight());
}
protected Point getOffset() {
if (img == null) {
return new Point(0, 0);
}
int x = (getWidth() - img.getWidth()) / 2;
int y = (getHeight() - img.getHeight()) / 2;
return new Point(x, y);
}
protected Rectangle getImageBounds() {
Rectangle bounds = new Rectangle(0, 0, 0, 0);
if (img != null) {
bounds.setLocation(getOffset());
bounds.setSize(img.getWidth(), img.getHeight());
}
return bounds;
}
#Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
if (img != null) {
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
Point offset = getOffset();
g2d.drawImage(img, offset.x, offset.y, this);
if (zoomPoint != null) {
BufferedImage zoomBuffer = updateBuffer(zoomPoint);
if (zoomBuffer != null) {
Rectangle bounds = getZoomBounds();
g2d.drawImage(zoomBuffer, bounds.x, bounds.y, this);
g2d.setColor(Color.RED);
g2d.draw(bounds);
}
}
g2d.dispose();
}
}
protected Rectangle getZoomBounds() {
Rectangle bounds = null;
if (zoomPoint != null && img != null) {
int zoomArea = getZoomArea();
int xPos = zoomPoint.x - (zoomArea / 2);
int yPos = zoomPoint.y - (zoomArea / 2);
Rectangle zoomBounds = new Rectangle(xPos, yPos, zoomArea, zoomArea);
Rectangle imageBounds = getImageBounds();
bounds = imageBounds.intersection(zoomBounds);
System.out.println(bounds);
}
return bounds;
}
protected BufferedImage updateBuffer(Point p) {
if (zoomPoint == null) {
return null;
}
Rectangle bounds = getZoomBounds();
Point offset = getOffset();
bounds.translate(-offset.x, -offset.y);
if (bounds.x < 0 || bounds.y < 0 || bounds.width <= 0 || bounds.height <= 0) {
return null;
}
BufferedImage zoomBuffer = new BufferedImage(bounds.width, bounds.height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics2D g2d = zoomBuffer.createGraphics();
BufferedImage sample = img.getSubimage(bounds.x, bounds.y, bounds.width, bounds.height);
double zoom = getZoom();
Image scaled = sample.getScaledInstance((int) (bounds.width * zoom), (int) (bounds.height * zoom), Image.SCALE_SMOOTH);
g2d.drawImage(scaled, 0, 0, this);
g2d.dispose();
return zoomBuffer;
}
}
}

Assigning a new ZoomPane to the zoomPane field will do nothing on the actual displayed ZoomPane.
What you want is to tell the existing ZoomPane to switch its zoom policy.
You could do that by adding the following method to ZoomPane :
void switchZoomBoxActivated() {
zoomBoxActivated = !zoomBoxActivated;
}
Then in the ItemListener, just call it this way :
#Override
public void itemStateChanged(final ItemEvent e) {
zoomPane.switchZoomBoxActivated();
}

JAVA drawing graphic

I want to draw a rectangle on an image when the mouse button is pressed and released. And this part works just fine. Now I want to be able to see the rectangle while I drag the mouse, what I get is lots of rectangles being drawn please help.
class ActionTemp implements ActionListener {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
myPanel.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent event) {
letsdraw = tempimage.createGraphics();
Point panelPoint = event.getPoint();
sX = panelPoint.x;
sY = panelPoint.y;
}
#Override
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent event) {
letsdraw.draw(new Rectangle2D.Float(Math.min(sX, curX),
Math.min(sY, curY), Math.abs(sX - curX),
Math.abs(sY - curY)));
letsdraw.dispose();
myPanel.repaint();
}
});
myPanel.addMouseMotionListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
Point panelPoint = event.getPoint();
curX = panelPoint.x;
curY = panelPoint.y;
letsdraw.draw(new Rectangle2D.Float(Math.min(sX, curX),
Math.min(sY, curY), Math.abs(sX - curX),
Math.abs(sY - curY)));
myPanel.repaint();
}
});
}
}

Start by having a look at Painting in AWT and Swing and Performing Custom Painting.
The basic problem is, you painting directly to the image, which means, unless you have a separate copy, you're just compounding each successive rectangle on top of the last.
Instead, you want to paint each of them separately, something like...
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
public class SelectionExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new SelectionExample();
}
public SelectionExample() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
}
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
frame.add(new TestPane());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class TestPane extends JPanel {
private Rectangle selection = new Rectangle();
private Point clickPoint;
private BufferedImage tempimage;
public TestPane() {
try {
tempimage = ImageIO.read(new File("/Users/shane/Dropbox/MegaTokyo/thumnails/2.jpg"));
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
MouseAdapter ma = new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
int minX = Math.min(e.getX(), clickPoint.x);
int minY = Math.min(e.getY(), clickPoint.y);
int maxX = Math.max(e.getX(), clickPoint.x);
int maxY = Math.max(e.getY(), clickPoint.y);
selection.x = minX;
selection.y = minY;
selection.width = maxX - minX;
selection.height = maxY - minY;
repaint();
}
#Override
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
clickPoint = new Point(e.getPoint());
}
};
addMouseListener(ma);
addMouseMotionListener(ma);
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return tempimage == null ? new Dimension(200, 200) : new Dimension(tempimage.getWidth(), tempimage.getHeight());
}
#Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
int x = (getWidth() - tempimage.getWidth()) / 2;
int y = (getHeight() - tempimage.getHeight()) / 2;
g2d.drawImage(tempimage, x, y, this);
if (selection.width > 0 && selection.height > 0) {
g2d.setColor(new Color(0, 0, 255, 64));
g2d.fill(selection);
g2d.setColor(Color.BLUE);
g2d.draw(selection);
}
g2d.dispose();
}
}
}

Difference between Graphics object of getGraphics and paintComponent

If I'm working with a JPanel, what's the difference between the Graphics object returned by getGraphics, and the Graphics object that is passed in paintComponent method?

getGraphics
Can be null
Is a "snap shot" of the last paint process
Anything painted to it will be lost on the next paint cycle
You should avoid using getGraphics and simply use what is past to the paintComponent method.
In theory, there is no difference between them, but if you want what you have painted to survive between repaints, then you should be using paintComponent
Updated with example
Without an example code to go by I'm guessing...but...
Basically, this has a JPanel that acts as the primary "canvas" that draws an image and, when set, a Rectangle which acts as the selection.
It uses a second class as the MouseListener to actually make the decisions about what to paint
import java.awt.AlphaComposite;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Composite;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
public class MouseSelection {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new MouseSelection();
}
public MouseSelection() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
}
ImagePane imgPane = new ImagePane();
new MouseHandler(imgPane);
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
frame.add(imgPane);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class MouseHandler extends MouseAdapter {
private ImagePane imgPane;
private Point clickPoint;
public MouseHandler(ImagePane imgPane) {
this.imgPane = imgPane;
imgPane.addMouseMotionListener(this);
imgPane.addMouseListener(this);
}
#Override
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
imgPane.clearSelection();
clickPoint = e.getPoint();
}
#Override
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
clickPoint = null;
}
#Override
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
if (clickPoint != null) {
Point dragPoint = e.getPoint();
int x = Math.min(clickPoint.x, dragPoint.x);
int y = Math.min(clickPoint.y, dragPoint.y);
int width = Math.max(clickPoint.x, dragPoint.x) - x;
int height = Math.max(clickPoint.y, dragPoint.y) - y;
imgPane.setSelection(new Rectangle(x, y, width, height));
}
}
}
public class ImagePane extends JPanel {
private BufferedImage img;
private Rectangle selection;
public ImagePane() {
try {
img = ImageIO.read(new File("C:\\hold\\thumbnails\\issue459.jpg"));
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return img == null ? new Dimension(200, 200) : new Dimension(img.getWidth(), img.getHeight());
}
#Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
if (img != null) {
int x = (getWidth() - img.getWidth()) / 2;
int y = (getHeight() - img.getHeight()) / 2;
g2d.drawImage(img, x, y, this);
}
if (selection != null) {
Color color = UIManager.getColor("Table.selectionBackground");
g2d.setColor(color);
Composite comp = g2d.getComposite();
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.SrcOver.derive(0.5f));
g2d.fill(selection);
g2d.setComposite(comp);
g2d.draw(selection);
}
g2d.dispose();
}
protected void clearSelection() {
selection = null;
repaint();
}
protected void setSelection(Rectangle rectangle) {
selection = rectangle;
repaint();
}
}
}

Java fade in and out of images

I am trying to learn how to fade in and out images into another image or from another image. So, if I have 2 images, and 1 is being displayed at the moment, I want to display another image in the background and fade the first image out into the 2nd image. OR, I want to set the focus on the new image and slowly fade it in over the 1st image, then stop displaying the 1st one.
I'm not sure how:
to set focus, if even needed.
I can fade in if I change the alpha to 0 and increment up and only draw one image, however I cannot get it to fade out either with any variation of this code. (i.e. commenting out one image to draw).
Edit: Really, all I'm worried about is being able to have 2 images and make the image currently being displayed slowly disappear into the 2nd image. How that is accomplished doesn't need to be with this.
Here is a code sample I'm messing with:
import java.awt.AlphaComposite;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class FadeIn extends JPanel implements ActionListener {
private Image imagem;
private Image image2;
private Timer timer;
private float alpha = 1f;
public FadeIn() {
imagem = (new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource(
"/resources/1stImage.jpg"))).getImage();
image2 = (new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource(
"/resources/2ndImage.jpg"))).getImage();
timer = new Timer(20, this);
timer.start();
}
// here you define alpha 0f to 1f
public FadeIn(float alpha) {
imagem = (new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource(
"/resources/1stImage.jpg"))).getImage();
this.alpha = alpha;
}
#Override
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
g2d.drawImage(imagem, 0, 0, 400, 300, null);
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.getInstance(AlphaComposite.SRC_OVER,
alpha));
g2d.drawImage(image2, 0, 0, 400, 300, null);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Fade out");
frame.add(new FadeIn());
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(420, 330);
// frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
alpha += -0.01f;
if (alpha <= 0) {
alpha = 0;
timer.stop();
}
repaint();
}
}

Basically, what this does is use the same alpha value, fading in from 0-1 and then using the same alpha, going from 1-0, allowing the two images to cross fade over each other...
The magic basically, happens in the paintComponent, where the image coming in using the alpha value and the outgoing image uses 1f - alpha.
Switching between the two images is actually a the same process, expect the inImage is swapped for the outImage
The timing is little different. Instead of a straight move from 0-1 using a standard delta (ie 0.01 for example), this uses a time based algorithm.
That is, I use a timer which ticks every 40 milliseconds or so, it then does a calculation based on the amount of time the timer has being running and calculates the alpha value accordingly...
This allows you to change the amount of time the animation will take, but also provides a slightly better algorithm that takes into account the passive nature of Swings rendering engine...
import java.awt.AlphaComposite;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.Timer;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
public class FadeImage {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new FadeImage();
}
public FadeImage() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.add(new TestPane());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public static class TestPane extends JPanel {
public static final long RUNNING_TIME = 2000;
private BufferedImage inImage;
private BufferedImage outImage;
private float alpha = 0f;
private long startTime = -1;
public TestPane() {
try {
inImage = ImageIO.read(new File("/path/to/inImage"));
outImage = ImageIO.read(new File("/path/to/outImage"));
} catch (IOException exp) {
exp.printStackTrace();
}
final Timer timer = new Timer(40, new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (startTime < 0) {
startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
} else {
long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
long duration = time - startTime;
if (duration >= RUNNING_TIME) {
startTime = -1;
((Timer) e.getSource()).stop();
alpha = 0f;
} else {
alpha = 1f - ((float) duration / (float) RUNNING_TIME);
}
repaint();
}
}
});
addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
alpha = 0f;
BufferedImage tmp = inImage;
inImage = outImage;
outImage = tmp;
timer.start();
}
});
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(
Math.max(inImage.getWidth(), outImage.getWidth()),
Math.max(inImage.getHeight(), outImage.getHeight()));
}
#Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.SrcOver.derive(alpha));
int x = (getWidth() - inImage.getWidth()) / 2;
int y = (getHeight() - inImage.getHeight()) / 2;
g2d.drawImage(inImage, x, y, this);
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.SrcOver.derive(1f - alpha));
x = (getWidth() - outImage.getWidth()) / 2;
y = (getHeight() - outImage.getHeight()) / 2;
g2d.drawImage(outImage, x, y, this);
g2d.dispose();
}
}
}

This is a easy and short most developers using java code for image fade.
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.RescaleOp;
import java.io.File;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
/**
*
* #author ADMIN
*/
public class ImageFade extends JFrame {
ImageFade() {
setLayout(null);
JLabel l = new JLabel();
l.setBounds(0, 0, 100, 96);
add(l);
Thread tp = new Thread() {
#Override
public void run() {
for (int amp = 0; amp <= 500; amp++) {
try {
sleep(1);
try {
BufferedImage bim = ImageIO.read(new File("src/image/fade/image.png"));
BufferedImage nbim = new BufferedImage(bim.getWidth(), bim.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics2D createGraphics = nbim.createGraphics();
createGraphics.drawImage(bim, null, 0, 0);
RescaleOp r = new RescaleOp(new float[]{1f, 1f, 1f, (float) amp / 500}, new float[]{0, 0, 0, 0}, null);
BufferedImage filter = r.filter(nbim, null);
l.setIcon(new ImageIcon(filter));
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.err.println(ex);
}
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
}
}
}
};
tp.start();
setUndecorated(true);
setBackground(new Color(0, 0, 0, 0));
setSize(100, 96);
setVisible(true);
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setResizable(false);
setAlwaysOnTop(true);
}
/**
* #param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
ImageFade fr = new ImageFade();
}
}
in this code you can see a thread code. in the thread this image will fade in.
the used image is stack overflow web page's logo image.
only by shown code the image will fade in.
Thread tp = new Thread() {
#Override
public void run() {
for (int amp = 0; amp <= 500; amp++) {
try {
sleep(1);
try {
BufferedImage bim = ImageIO.read(new File("src/image/fade/image.png"));
BufferedImage nbim = new BufferedImage(bim.getWidth(), bim.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics2D createGraphics = nbim.createGraphics();
createGraphics.drawImage(bim, null, 0, 0);
RescaleOp r = new RescaleOp(new float[]{1f, 1f, 1f, (float) amp / 500}, new float[]{0, 0, 0, 0}, null);
BufferedImage filter = r.filter(nbim, null);
l.setIcon(new ImageIcon(filter));
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.err.println(ex);
}
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
}
}
}
};
tp.start();
This code is very simple to use.
This is not from any book, internet or etc. It is developed by me.
A normal image is not able to change alpha. By code : BufferedImage nbim = new BufferedImage(bim.getWidth(), bim.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); the image will convert to ARGB - Alpha, Red, Green, Blue (R,G,B,A) image.
So you can change the alpha of a image.

Java ImageIcons and actioin listeners

I am creating a simple game where a person clicks on an image the score increases by one.
It seems simple enough, right? Here's the catch-- the images will be hidden partially behind other images!
Currently, I'm using several imageIcons to set up my scene. For instance, my foreground has an image "foreground.png," my background is "background.png", and my image that is hiding between the two is "hiding.png".
My first thought was to simply get the coordinates of the imageIcon hiding, add the height() and width() to them, and create a mouse listener that would only work in that specified region. However, that would give me a rectangle for the user to click which would defeat the purpose of hiding the object (someone could click the rigid boundary of the graphic behind the foreground).
Do you have any suggestions on how to make a mouse action listener work only on the VISIBLE pixels of an imageIcon? Yes, I understand that action listeners can only be applied to components (such as buttons) but "the button" just doesn't do what I want for this project.

Example 1
This basically uses a series of JLabels on a JLayeredPane. Each label has it's own mouse listener and when you mouse over it, will turn red. But, if there is a label above it, it won't respond to mouse events...
import java.awt.AlphaComposite;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JLayeredPane;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
public class ClickMyImages {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new ClickMyImages();
}
public ClickMyImages() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
}
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
frame.add(new TestPane());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class TestPane extends JLayeredPane {
public TestPane() {
try {
BufferedImage img1 = ImageIO.read("/Image1");
BufferedImage img2 = ImageIO.read("/Image2");
BufferedImage img3 = ImageIO.read("/Image3");
BufferedImage img4 = ImageIO.read("/Image4");
BufferedImage img5 = ImageIO.read("/Image5");
JLabel label1 = new ClickableLabel(new ImageIcon(img1));
JLabel label2 = new ClickableLabel(new ImageIcon(img2));
JLabel label3 = new ClickableLabel(new ImageIcon(img3));
JLabel label4 = new ClickableLabel(new ImageIcon(img4));
JLabel label5 = new ClickableLabel(new ImageIcon(img5));
Dimension masterSize = getPreferredSize();
Dimension size = label1.getPreferredSize();
label1.setBounds((masterSize.width - size.width) / 2, (masterSize.height - size.height) / 2, size.width, size.height);
Point masterPoint = label1.getLocation();
size = label2.getPreferredSize();
label2.setBounds(
masterPoint.x - (size.width / 2),
masterPoint.y - (size.height / 2),
size.width, size.height);
size = label3.getPreferredSize();
label3.setBounds(
masterPoint.x + (size.width / 2),
masterPoint.y - (size.height / 2),
size.width, size.height);
size = label4.getPreferredSize();
label4.setBounds(
masterPoint.x - (size.width / 2),
masterPoint.y + (size.height / 2),
size.width, size.height);
size = label5.getPreferredSize();
label5.setBounds(
masterPoint.x + (size.width / 2),
masterPoint.y + (size.height / 2),
size.width, size.height);
add(label1);
add(label2);
add(label3);
add(label4);
add(label5);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(800, 800);
}
}
// This is for demonstration purposes only!
public class ClickableLabel extends JLabel {
private boolean isIn = false;
public ClickableLabel(Icon image) {
super(image);
addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
isIn = true;
repaint();
}
#Override
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {
isIn = false;
repaint();
}
});
}
#Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
if (isIn) {
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.SrcOver.derive(0.5f));
g2d.setColor(Color.RED);
g2d.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
g2d.dispose();
}
}
}
}
Example 2
This examples uses the paintComponent method to renderer the images. It checks the pixel alpha of the image at the mouse point to determine if the mouse event should fall through or not.
I've been a little strict using an alpha value of 255, but you could soften it a little based on your needs (something like 225 instead for example)...
I've hard coded the layers so that the tree is always above the squirrel, but it wouldn't be hard to add all the images to List in the order you want them to appear and simple run down the list till you get a hit.
import java.awt.AlphaComposite;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Composite;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
public class ClickMyDrawnImages {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new ClickMyDrawnImages();
}
public ClickMyDrawnImages() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
}
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
frame.add(new TestPane());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class TestPane extends JPanel {
private BufferedImage tree;
private BufferedImage squirrel;
private BufferedImage mouseOver;
public TestPane() {
try {
tree = ImageIO.read(new File("Tree.png"));
squirrel = ImageIO.read(new File("Squirrel.png"));
} catch (IOException exp) {
exp.printStackTrace();
}
addMouseMotionListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
if (withinTree(e.getPoint())) {
mouseOver = tree;
} else if (withinSquirrel(e.getPoint())) {
mouseOver = squirrel;
} else {
mouseOver = null;
}
repaint();
}
});
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(200, 200);
}
protected boolean withinTree(Point p) {
return withinBounds(p, getTreeBounds(), tree);
}
protected boolean withinSquirrel(Point p) {
return !withinBounds(p, getTreeBounds(), tree) && withinBounds(p, getSquirrelBounds(), squirrel);
}
protected Rectangle getTreeBounds() {
int width = getWidth();
int height = getHeight();
int x = (width - tree.getWidth()) / 2;
int y = (height - tree.getHeight()) / 2;
return new Rectangle(x, y, tree.getWidth(), tree.getHeight());
}
protected Rectangle getSquirrelBounds() {
Rectangle bounds = getTreeBounds();
return new Rectangle(
bounds.x - (squirrel.getWidth() / 4),
(getHeight() - squirrel.getHeight()) / 2,
squirrel.getWidth(), squirrel.getHeight());
}
#Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
int width = getWidth();
int height = getHeight();
int x = (width - tree.getWidth()) / 2;
int y = (height - tree.getHeight()) / 2;
g.drawImage(highlight(squirrel), x - (squirrel.getWidth() / 4), (height - squirrel.getHeight()) / 2, this);
g2d.drawImage(highlight(tree), x, y, this);
g2d.dispose();
}
protected BufferedImage highlight(BufferedImage img) {
BufferedImage highlight = img;
if (img.equals(mouseOver)) {
highlight = new BufferedImage(img.getWidth(), img.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics2D g2d = highlight.createGraphics();
g2d.setColor(Color.RED);
g2d.drawImage(img, 0, 0, this);
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.SrcAtop.derive(0.5f));
g2d.fillRect(0, 0, highlight.getWidth(), highlight.getHeight());
g2d.dispose();
}
return highlight;
}
protected boolean withinBounds(Point p, Rectangle bounds, BufferedImage image) {
boolean withinBounds = false;
if (bounds.contains(p)) {
int x = p.x - bounds.x;
int y = p.y - bounds.y;
int pixel = image.getRGB(x, y);
int a = (pixel >> 24) & 0xFF;
// could use a little weighting, so translucent pixels can be effected
if (a == 255) {
withinBounds = true;
}
}
return withinBounds;
}
}
}