Here's what I would do. Use a JPanel
for the background and throw in some custom paint code.
Drag a
JPanel
to the form and expand that to cover the whole frame, to be the background.Right click on the
JPanel
and select Customize Code from the context menu. You will see the following dialog. You can now edit the code.Make sure to select custom creation from the drop down and type this
jPanel1 = new JPanel() { BufferedImage img; { try { img = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("/resources/stackoverflow5.png")); } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } @Override protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) { super.paintComponent(g); g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), this); } };
You probably will have to resolve imports. Just hit Ctrl + Shift + I
Also you will have to change the path of the image to your path.
Here's my file structure
And here's the result