JLabel
doesn't rescale it's content (ie the image), for that, you're going to have to get you hands a little dirty...
There are a number of ways to achieve this. Personally, I'd start with a custom component, which extends from something like JPanel
which takes a base image and is capable of scaling and painting it.
Take a look at Performing Custom Painting and Painting in AWT and Swing for more details about performing custom painting.
Scaling an image is not as straightforward as it might seem, while Java does provide some APIs to scale images, generally, they don't generate fantastic results. Take a look at Quality of Image after resize very low -- Java and The Perils of Image.getScaledInstance() for more details.
I would normally recommend taking a look at the imgscalr library, as it's results are generally quite good (better then what the base Java API provides or I've seen through most other methods), but for this example, I've included an example of a divide an conqure approach.
This example provides a "scale to fill" implementation, this ensures that the resulting image ALWAYS fills the available space while maintaining it's aspect ratio, see Java: maintaining aspect ratio of JPanel background image for more discussions on the subject
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.HeadlessException;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.Transparency;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
public class ScaledBackground {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new ScaledBackground();
}
public ScaledBackground() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(...);
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.add(new ImagePane(img));
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
} catch (IOException exp) {
exp.printStackTrace();
}
}
});
}
public class ImagePane extends JPanel {
private BufferedImage original;
private BufferedImage scaled;
public ImagePane(BufferedImage img) {
original = img;
scaled = original;
}
@Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return original == null ? new Dimension(200, 200) : new Dimension(original.getWidth(), original.getHeight());
}
@Override
public void invalidate() {
super.invalidate();
generateScaledInstance();
}
protected void generateScaledInstance() {
if (original != null) {
scaled = getScaledInstanceToFill(original, getSize());
}
}
@Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
if (scaled != null) {
int x = (getWidth() - scaled.getWidth()) / 2;
int y = (getHeight() - scaled.getHeight()) / 2;
g2d.drawImage(scaled, x, y, this);
}
g2d.dispose();
}
public BufferedImage getScaledInstanceToFill(BufferedImage img, Dimension size) {
float scaleFactor = getScaleFactorToFill(img, size);
return getScaledInstance(img, scaleFactor);
}
public float getScaleFactorToFill(BufferedImage img, Dimension size) {
float scale = 1f;
if (img != null) {
int imageWidth = img.getWidth();
int imageHeight = img.getHeight();
scale = getScaleFactorToFill(new Dimension(imageWidth, imageHeight), size);
}
return scale;
}
public float getScaleFactorToFill(Dimension original, Dimension toFit) {
float scale = 1f;
if (original != null && toFit != null) {
float dScaleWidth = getScaleFactor(original.width, toFit.width);
float dScaleHeight = getScaleFactor(original.height, toFit.height);
scale = Math.max(dScaleHeight, dScaleWidth);
}
return scale;
}
public float getScaleFactor(int iMasterSize, int iTargetSize) {
float scale = 1;
if (iMasterSize > iTargetSize) {
scale = (float) iTargetSize / (float) iMasterSize;
} else {
scale = (float) iTargetSize / (float) iMasterSize;
}
return scale;
}
public BufferedImage getScaledInstance(BufferedImage img, double dScaleFactor) {
BufferedImage imgBuffer = null;
imgBuffer = getScaledInstance(img, dScaleFactor, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR, true);
return imgBuffer;
}
protected BufferedImage getScaledInstance(BufferedImage img, double dScaleFactor, Object hint, boolean higherQuality) {
BufferedImage scaled = img;
if (dScaleFactor != 1.0) {
if (dScaleFactor > 1.0) {
scaled = getScaledUpInstance(img, dScaleFactor, hint, higherQuality);
} else if (dScaleFactor > 0.0) {
scaled = getScaledDownInstance(img, dScaleFactor, hint, higherQuality);
}
}
return scaled;
}
protected BufferedImage getScaledDownInstance(BufferedImage img, double dScaleFactor, Object hint, boolean higherQuality) {
int targetWidth = (int) Math.round(img.getWidth() * dScaleFactor);
int targetHeight = (int) Math.round(img.getHeight() * dScaleFactor);
int type = (img.getTransparency() == Transparency.OPAQUE)
? BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB : BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB;
BufferedImage ret = (BufferedImage) img;
if (targetHeight > 0 || targetWidth > 0) {
int w, h;
if (higherQuality) {
w = img.getWidth();
h = img.getHeight();
} else {
w = targetWidth;
h = targetHeight;
}
do {
if (higherQuality && w > targetWidth) {
w /= 2;
if (w < targetWidth) {
w = targetWidth;
}
}
if (higherQuality && h > targetHeight) {
h /= 2;
if (h < targetHeight) {
h = targetHeight;
}
}
BufferedImage tmp = new BufferedImage(Math.max(w, 1), Math.max(h, 1), type);
Graphics2D g2 = tmp.createGraphics();
g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, hint);
g2.drawImage(ret, 0, 0, w, h, null);
g2.dispose();
ret = tmp;
} while (w != targetWidth || h != targetHeight);
} else {
ret = new BufferedImage(1, 1, type);
}
return ret;
}
protected BufferedImage getScaledUpInstance(BufferedImage img,
double dScaleFactor,
Object hint,
boolean higherQuality) {
int targetWidth = (int) Math.round(img.getWidth() * dScaleFactor);
int targetHeight = (int) Math.round(img.getHeight() * dScaleFactor);
int type = BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB;
BufferedImage ret = (BufferedImage) img;
int w, h;
if (higherQuality) {
w = img.getWidth();
h = img.getHeight();
} else {
w = targetWidth;
h = targetHeight;
}
do {
if (higherQuality && w < targetWidth) {
w *= 2;
if (w > targetWidth) {
w = targetWidth;
}
}
if (higherQuality && h < targetHeight) {
h *= 2;
if (h > targetHeight) {
h = targetHeight;
}
}
BufferedImage tmp = new BufferedImage(w, h, type);
Graphics2D g2 = tmp.createGraphics();
g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, hint);
g2.drawImage(ret, 0, 0, w, h, null);
g2.dispose();
ret = tmp;
tmp = null;
} while (w != targetWidth || h != targetHeight);
return ret;
}
}
}
This example will grow and shrink as the image as the amount of available space for the panel changes