hi!
I am designing a 2d game, in my game i want to add a feature e.g. in my jframe i have three images if a user clicks on a image that image will automatically get set as a background throughout the three laves (in my game they are three lavels) . but if a user dont choose one of three backgrounds then default background should be applied (defalt background is already they)..... does any one know ow to implement this feature

Put the images into JButtons as an icon and click on the button to select it.

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you could also add a MouseListener to every component where an image is shown (maybe a JPanel or JButton) and whenever they are pressed set the background image to the frame depending on which image is clicked

This could be done, as mentioned above with help from a JButton.
Or 3 JButtons.

Code-Snippet:

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

public class Class01 extends JFrame implements ActionListener 
{
    private JPanel contentPane;
    private JLabel bg;
    private Icon[] wallpaper;
    private JButton[] btn = new JButton[4];

    public Class01()
    {
        //
        // Creating the JFrame
        //
        setTitle("Java - Class01");
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        setSize(800,600);
        setResizable(true)
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setVisible(true);


        //
        // Creating the contentPane
        //
        contentPane = new JPanel();
        contentPane = (JPanel) this.getContentPane();
        contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        contentPane.setBackground(Color.BLUE); /* Example */
        contentPane.setOpaque(true);
        contentPane.setVisible(true);


       ///////////////////
       //    ARRAYS     //
       ///////////////////

       //
       // Initializing images
       //
       for (int i=0; i<wallpaper.length; i++)
       {
           try
           {
               wallpaper[i] = new ImageIcon(
               getClass().getResource("images/wallpaper"+i+".png");

               // Note: getClass().getResource(String);
               // -will access images inside the jar file.
           }
           catch (Exception ex) {}
       }

       //
       // Initializing Buttons
       //
       for (int i=1; i<btn.length; i++)
       {
           btn[i] = new JButton(); // Specify image inside the parameters, if any.
           btn[i].addActionListener(this);
           btn[i].setSize("100,100");
           btn[i].setOpaque(false);
           btn[i].setVisible(true);
       }

       JLabel bg = new JLabel();
       bg.setOpaque(true);
       bg.setVisible(true);

       contentPane.add(bg, BorderLayout.CENTER);
       repaint();

   }


   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
   {
       if (e.getSource() == btn[1])
       {
           bg = new JLabel(wallpaper[1]);
       }

       else if (e.getSource() == btn[2])
       {
           bg = new JLabel(wallpaper[2]);
       }

       else if (e.getSource() == btn[3])
       {
           bg = new JLabel(wallpaper[3]);
       }

   /** Main Method **/

   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
       java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable()
       {
           public void run()
           {
               JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
               JDialog.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
               try
               {
                   UIManager.setLookAndFeel(
                   "com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
               }
               catch (Exception ex)
               {
                   ex.printStackTrace();
               }

               new Class01();
           }
       });

   }
}

Hope that helps.

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