The subject says it all. Can anyone tell me how to convert an Image to a BufferedImage?

Regards,
Igor

From what I found java.imageio.ImageIO cannot read .bmp files. This is not good for me. Can anyone tell me of a different class that can read BMPs and preferably return a BufferedImage?

Regards,
Igor

This is what it printed:

Sorry I took a while. The code compiles but throws an exception of type ClassCastException. It's thrown at the line:

can anyone tell me why this is so?

Thanks Abuse,

Its what I was looking for. One question though... what did you mean when you called "plied()"? Is it a typo? What package do I have to import?

Your best bet is probably to just create those rotation images outside your program. Then just load the files during runtime. I just create 8 similar images, each pointing in a different direction.

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Igor

Does Java allow you to set a certain color transparent after the image has been loaded into memory? I don’t want to go through all my GIFs and make the background transparent. I remember that C# has a feature where you specify a pixel and its color becomes transparent. Does Java have this? Can anyone post some code?


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Igor

OK ,

I'm very sorry to have been wasting your time. oNyx you were absolutely right and your advice is worth gold. I can't stop smiling. :-D. I just spent the last 3 days of my summer break on a simple mistake.

When I was saving the images using Microsoft Paint, I would write the following into the name edit box: image.gif. However, I would forget to change the format to gif. Assuming that Microsoft would do so automatically. This was the problem.

Again I apologize for my last 3 posts. Hey at least I learned something in the process.

Regards,
Igor

PS: I'm really not stupid, just 15. So please don't hold my age and inattention to detail against me.

OK, I made some progress. The problem arises when ImageIO calls the getImageReaders() method. I looked inside it but didn't understand what the problem was. Anyway, when it calls getImageReader() the method returns an empty Iterator. This is why it keeps returning null. What file formats does ImageIO support. I was using .gif and thought that it was supported. Can anyone help?

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Igor

It still doesn’t work. When I attempt to load an image that I find on google images it works fine. But when I try to load them from my disk it (ImageIO) returns a null image. I use JBuilder so I put the image in the \classes directory. It (getResource) finds the image but when I pass the URL to ImageIO it still returns a null.

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Igor

I'm having some trouble loading images into my game. The images are currently saved in the directory where my class files are located. I'm using Windows 2000. I call the ClassLoader.getResource() method and it returns a URL that looks something like this: "file:C:/_Work/.../image.gif". Is this a valid URL to pass to the javax.imageio.ImageIO.read function or does the URL have to be an actual http address. I'm not sure that the question makes sense, but can anyone explain how to load images in Java.

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Igor