Image doesn't display properly

From:
rob.anteau@chartermi.net
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
27 Apr 2006 14:00:05 -0700
Message-ID:
<1146171605.039741.179610@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Hello everyone,

I am very new to Java programming, or any programming for that matter.
I have been playing with getting images to display in an application
when an action is performed, but I have been experiencing problems.
When I click the button the image doesn't display. If I click the
button a second time the image displays. Could anyone tell me how I
could resolve this?

Here is a very simple version of my code.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class SimpleImage extends JFrame implements ActionListener{

    Image exampleImage;
    JButton btnExample;

    public SimpleImage( ) {

        super("Image Example");
        // Get the image from the file
        btnExample = new JButton("Click Me");

        Container pane = getContentPane( );

        FlowLayout flow = new FlowLayout();

        pane.setLayout(flow);
        pane.add(btnExample);

        // Set up the frame features
        setSize(400, 300);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setVisible(true);

        //event handler
        btnExample.addActionListener(this);
     }
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
        if(e.getSource()== btnExample){
            exampleImage =
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("happyface.jpg");
            Graphics draw = getGraphics();
         draw.drawImage(exampleImage, 100, 175, this);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[ ] args) {
        SimpleImage frame = new SimpleImage( );
    }
}

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