JavaFX: Inserting image into a GridPane

Question

Basically, I just want to insert an image into a cell within a gridpane.

GridPane gridpane = new GridPane();
gridpane.add(new Image("File:image/myfile.jpg"));
getChildren().addAll(gridpane);

Always tells me "Image is abstract, cannot be instantiated". Which I've Googled pretty extensively vaguely found that I have to use this as a BufferedImage or something? Not actually getting it though. What am I doing wrong here?

James_D · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-15T20:02:59.010

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It seems that you have the wrong import for Image (you probably have java.awt.Image). The import you need for a JavaFX image is

import javafx.scene.image.Image ;

You then need to wrap the image in an ImageView, and add the ImageView to the grid pane:

GridPane gridpane = new GridPane();
Image image = new Image("File:image/myfile.jpg")
gridpane.getChildren().add(new ImageView(image));

edited Apr 15 '16 at 20:02

answered Apr 15 '16 at 16:45

James_D

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This got me a little further(I did have the wrong import), but now it's telling me there's an error with that last line "no suitable method for add(ImageView)". Is there another importI need to make ImageView work? – BEASTthisIndustry Apr 15 '16 at 20:02
Sorry, my bad. Updated it. – James_D Apr 15 '16 at 20:03
Awesome, that took care of it. It finally compiles. Now how can I assign that to a certain row/column? I already see that: gridpane.getChildren().add(new ImageView(image),1,1); Doesn't work. – BEASTthisIndustry Apr 15 '16 at 20:13
See [docs](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/layout/GridPane.html) – James_D Apr 15 '16 at 20:14
SetRowIndex and SetColumnIndex did the trick for me. Thank you so very much. – BEASTthisIndustry Apr 15 '16 at 20:41

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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Try this code ;)

image = new Image("File:image/myfile.jpg");
pic = new ImageView();
pic.setFitWidth(130);
pic.setFitHeight(130);
pic.setImage(image);
gridpane.add(pic);

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered Apr 15 '16 at 16:42

Maverick283

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 26 '17 at 02:00

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You can try this.

GridPane pane = new GridPane();
FileInputStream imageStream = new FileInputStream("us.gif");
Image image = new Image(imageStream);
pane.add(new ImageView(image), 0, 0);

answered Apr 26 '17 at 02:00

Ramzan

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 05 '20 at 13:31

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Image is an abstract class and thus cannot be instancied. You should use one of the class who extend Image, like BufferedImage

BufferedImage img = null;
try {
    img = ImageIO.read(new File("strawberry.jpg"));
} catch (IOException e) {
}

edited Mar 05 '20 at 13:31

Miss Chanandler Bong

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answered Apr 15 '16 at 16:43

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This is a JavaFX question; this answer would be appropriate if the OP were asking about Swing/AWT images. – James_D Apr 15 '16 at 16:45

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 06 '20 at 15:21

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use this:

ImageView imageView = new ImageView(new Image(getClass().getResourceAsStream("picture.jpg")));

answered Dec 06 '20 at 15:21

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JavaFX: Inserting image into a GridPane

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