Попробуйте:
class MyTextArea extends JTextArea {
private Image backgroundImage;
public MyTextArea() {
super();
setOpaque(false);
}
public void setBackgroundImage(Image image) {
this.backgroundImage = image;
this.repaint();
}
@Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
g.setColor(getBackground());
g.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
if (backgroundImage != null) {
g.drawImage(backgroundImage, 0, 0, this);
}
super.paintComponent(g);
}
}
Тогда в вашем слушателе действий:
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
Image image = ImageIO.read(..);
if (image != null)
textArea.setBackgroundImage(image);
}
Вот пример:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.*;
public class BackgroundDemo {
private static void createAndShowUI() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
} catch (InstantiationException ex) {
} catch (IllegalAccessException ex) {
} catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
}
final JFrame frame = new JFrame("BackgroundDemo");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel buttonsPanel = new JPanel();
final MyTextArea textArea = new MyTextArea();
textArea.setText("Some text");
JButton loadButton = new JButton("Set background");
buttonsPanel.add(loadButton);
loadButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser(System.getProperty("user.home"));
int returnVal = fc.showOpenDialog(frame);
if (returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
try {
Image image = ImageIO.read(fc.getSelectedFile());
if (image != null)
textArea.setBackgroundImage(image);
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
});
JPanel content = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
content.add(buttonsPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
content.add(new JScrollPane(textArea), BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.add(content);
frame.setSize(new Dimension(300, 300));
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
static class MyTextArea extends JTextArea {
private Image backgroundImage;
public MyTextArea() {
super();
setOpaque(false);
}
public void setBackgroundImage(Image image) {
this.backgroundImage = image;
this.repaint();
}
@Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
g.setColor(getBackground());
g.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
if (backgroundImage != null) {
g.drawImage(backgroundImage, 0, 0, this);
}
super.paintComponent(g);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowUI();
}
});
}
}