How can I get height and width of an image?

Question

Why is the following bit of code returns Height: -1 which means that the height is yet not known. How to get height of the image?

 try {
        // Create a          


        

Answer 1

You want something like this:

    try {
        // Create a URL for the image's location
        URL url = new URL("http://bmw-2006.auto-one.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/bmw-m3-2006-3.jpg");

        // Get the image
        Image image = ImageIO.read(url);

        System.out.println("Height: " + image.getHeight(null));


    }
    catch(MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch(IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

The java.awt.Toolkit approach won't block, so will return -1 and notify the observer (or not in your case because it's null) when it is loaded. If you do want it asynchronously then you'll need to provide a callback in the form of an image observer.

Oh, and don't just ignore exceptions, at least print the stack trace!