The Image class represents graphical images and is used for loading
images from a specified URL.
Supported image formats are:
Images can be resized as they are loaded (for example to reduce the amount of memory consumed by the image). The application can specify the quality of filtering used when scaling, and whether or not to preserve the original image's aspect ratio.
All URLs supported by URL can be passed to the constructor.
If the passed string is not a valid URL, but a path instead, the Image is
searched on the classpath in that case.
Use ImageView for displaying images loaded with this
class. The same Image instance can be displayed by multiple
ImageViews.
Example code for loading images.
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
// load an image in background, displaying a placeholder while it's loading
// (assuming there's an ImageView node somewhere displaying this image)
// The image is located in default package of the classpath
Image image1 = new Image("/flower.png", true);
// load an image and resize it to 100x150 without preserving its original
// aspect ratio
// The image is located in my.res package of the classpath
Image image2 = new Image("my/res/flower.png", 100, 150, false, false);
// load an image and resize it to width of 100 while preserving its
// original aspect ratio, using faster filtering method
// The image is downloaded from the supplied URL through http protocol
Image image3 = new Image("http://sample.com/res/flower.png", 100, 0, false, false);
// load an image and resize it only in one dimension, to the height of 100 and
// the original width, without preserving original aspect ratio
// The image is located in the current working directory
Image image4 = new Image("file:flower.png", 0, 100, false, false);