How to display image using Applet in Java

Problem Description

How to display image using Applet?

Solution

Following example demonstrates how to display image using getImage() method. It also uses addImage() method of MediaTracker class.

import java.applet.*; 
import java.awt.*;

public class appletImage extends Applet { 
   Image img;
   MediaTracker tr;
   public void paint(Graphics g) {
      tr = new MediaTracker(this);
      img = getImage(getCodeBase(), "demoimg.gif");
      tr.addImage(img,0);
      g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, this);
   } 
}

Result

The above code sample will produce the following result in a java enabled web browser.

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