Hello people. I am trying to write a GUI to model a hand of poker. So far i am writing a class that extends canvas, is that the correct way to go about it? When i want to display my images of cards i'm getting confused between the image class in the awt package and the imageicon class in the swing package, as a result i'm getting confused and frustrated. Can anyone offer me any advice? anything at all would be much appreciated. Thankyou.

Hi,
If you are handling the drawing of Images by yourself using Graphics, which I think you will. I suggest you to use Image instead of ImageIcon, since Graphics supports drawing of Image. OffCourse you can get a Image object out of ImageIcon object.

Refer, to some image related examples at http://www.javareference.com/jrexamp....jsp?rootcat=2

Rahul

BufferedImage is actually probably what you want to look at -- it's a subclass of Image. AFAIR Image is actually an abstract class ... but my memory is a little fuzzy on that point.
 BufferedImage represnts a 2D raster image.