Cannot put image in Frame

Question

I am a beginner programmer trying to create a Pacman game using Java eclipse. I am at the beginning of the process and I'm simply trying to get my main "Princess Pacman" character on the JFrame screen, but, I have this Override error popping up. I have also tried it with out override but it doesn't seem to be working for me that way either.

Here is my code:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;

public class Pacman extends JFrame {
    public static final int WIDTH = 500;
    public static final int HEIGHT = 500;

    public static void main(String args[]){
        Pacman gui = new Pacman();
        gui.setVisible(true);
    }

    BufferedImage princess = null;
    public Pacman(){
        super("Princess Pacman");
        //set size of playing space
        setSize(WIDTH,HEIGHT);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        try{
             princess =ImageIO.read(new File("images/Elsa.jpeg"));
        }
        catch (IOException e){
            System.out.println("image not found");
        }

    }

    @Override
    public void draw(Graphics2D g){
        g.drawImage(princess.getScaledInstance(100, 100, Image.SCALE_DEFAULT), 0, 0, this);
    }

}

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 06 '15 at 06:16

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You're trying to override a method that does not exist in the JFrame class. Remove the override annotation.

answered Apr 06 '15 at 06:16

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Oh, good to know. Thank you. However, this does not fix my problem that the image is not showing up on the JFrame. Any suggestions? – Aliya Apr 06 '15 at 06:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

draw is not a method defined by JFrame or any of its parent classes, therefore it can't be override
draw is never called by anything that actually paints
You should avoid painting directly to top level containers, there's just to many things been painted onto it.
You can use a JLabel, but there are issues with this. Instead, create a custom class extending from JPanel and override its paintComponent method, making sure you call super.paintComponent before you render the image

Take a closer look at Painting in AWT and Swing, Performing Custom Painting and this for example

Cannot put image in Frame

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