How to add an image to a JPanel?

Question

I have a JPanel to which I\'d like to add JPEG and PNG images that I generate on the fly.

All the examples I\'ve seen so far in the Swing Tutorials, specially in the

Answer 1

Create a source folder in your project directory, in this case I called it Images.

JFrame snakeFrame = new JFrame();
snakeFrame.setBounds(100, 200, 800, 800);
snakeFrame.setVisible(true);
snakeFrame.add(new JLabel(new ImageIcon("Images/Snake.png")));
snakeFrame.pack();