Toolkit.prepareImage

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Syntax

public abstract boolean prepareImage( Image image, int width, int height, ImageObserver observer )

Parameters

image: the image for which to prepare a screen representation.
width: the width of the desired screen representation, or -1.
height: the height of the desired screen representation, or -1.
observer: the ImageObserver object to be notified as the image is being prepared.

Returns

true if the image has already been fully prepared; false otherwise.

Description

Prepares an image for rendering.

If the values of the width and height arguments are both -1, this method prepares the image for rendering on the default screen; otherwise, this method prepares an image for rendering on the default screen at the specified width and height.

The image data is downloaded asynchronously in another thread, and an appropriately scaled screen representation of the image is generated.

This method is called by components prepareImage methods.

Information on the flags returned by this method can be found with the definition of the ImageObserver interface.