JSplitPane Background image on right side component

Question

I have a JSplitPane. i want to add background image to the left side of the JSplitPane.

mySplitPane.getLeftComponent 

this returs the left side component. and then i want to add an image background to the left side. i think i can use the Paint() to set background image to the JSplitPane. but how can i set on the only left side component.

I have a JTable on left side of my JSplitPane. i want to have JTable transparent. and then showing the background image.

Right now i have set background to my JTable. i dont want the background to be scrolled with JTable Scroll. Thats why i want to add background image to the Split Pane not the Table.

Answer 1

Could this be what you're looking for?

class ImagePanel extends JPanel {
    private Image image;
    public ImagePanel(Image image) {
        this.image = image;
    }
    @Override
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
       g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), this);
    }
}

Usage:

BufferedImage myImage = ImageIO.load(...);
JPanel leftPanel = new ImagePanel(myImage);

//Add panel to splitpanel
JSplitPane mySplitPane= new JSplitPane(JSplitPane.HORIZONTAL_SPLIT)
mySplitPane.setLeftComponent(leftPanel);

Above I have created a subclass of JComponent. Override the paintComponent(Graphics g) method to paint the image that I want to display. I then set the content pane of the JPanel and then finally pass the panel to the left of the split pane

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