How to make a Javafx image processing application
I am creating an app for my colleagues to crop an image. I am using FXML with Scene Builder to create a GUI. The user clicks a button to select an image from their computer. The image is then displayed in the GUI. The user can scale and move within the panel. Finally, click the button to save the edited image to your computer.
However, I don't know which library I should be using to build the application.
This is my first time graphics. I have no idea how to read an image, crop an image, and write an image. Javafx Canvas for panel?
Any good resources besides the Java doc to read to see how I can do this?
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Your question is too much to answer on StackOverflow. I suggest you start by reading the official Oracle documentation on JavaFX.
However, since this is an interesting topic, here is the answer in code.
There are several things you need to consider:
- use ImageView as container
- use ScrollPane if the image is larger.
- provide a selection mechanism
- crop the image itself
- save image to file by providing file selection dialog
That's pretty much it. In the example below, use the left mouse button for selection, right mouse button for the cropping context menu, which then takes a snapshot of the ImageView node at the seleciton boundaries and then saves the image to file.
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.embed.swing.SwingFXUtils;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.geometry.Bounds;
import javafx.geometry.Rectangle2D;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.SnapshotParameters;
import javafx.scene.control.ContextMenu;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuItem;
import javafx.scene.control.ScrollPane;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.image.WritableImage;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.scene.shape.StrokeLineCap;
import javafx.stage.FileChooser;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
/**
* Load image, provide rectangle for rubberband selection. Press right mouse button for "crop" context menu which then crops the image at the selection rectangle and saves it as jpg.
*/
public class ImageCropWithRubberBand extends Application {
RubberBandSelection rubberBandSelection;
ImageView imageView;
Stage primaryStage;
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
this.primaryStage = primaryStage;
primaryStage.setTitle("Image Crop");
BorderPane root = new BorderPane();
// container for image layers
ScrollPane scrollPane = new ScrollPane();
// image layer: a group of images
Group imageLayer = new Group();
// load the image
// Image image = new Image( getClass().getResource( "cat.jpg").toExternalForm());
Image image = new Image("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Gatto_europeo4.jpg/1024px-Gatto_europeo4.jpg");
// the container for the image as a javafx node
imageView = new ImageView( image);
// add image to layer
imageLayer.getChildren().add( imageView);
// use scrollpane for image view in case the image is large
scrollPane.setContent(imageLayer);
// put scrollpane in scene
root.setCenter(scrollPane);
// rubberband selection
rubberBandSelection = new RubberBandSelection(imageLayer);
// create context menu and menu items
ContextMenu contextMenu = new ContextMenu();
MenuItem cropMenuItem = new MenuItem("Crop");
cropMenuItem.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
public void handle(ActionEvent e) {
// get bounds for image crop
Bounds selectionBounds = rubberBandSelection.getBounds();
// show bounds info
System.out.println( "Selected area: " + selectionBounds);
// crop the image
crop( selectionBounds);
}
});
contextMenu.getItems().add( cropMenuItem);
// set context menu on image layer
imageLayer.setOnMousePressed(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
@Override
public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
if (event.isSecondaryButtonDown()) {
contextMenu.show(imageLayer, event.getScreenX(), event.getScreenY());
}
}
});
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 1024, 768));
primaryStage.show();
}
private void crop( Bounds bounds) {
FileChooser fileChooser = new FileChooser();
fileChooser.setTitle("Save Image");
File file = fileChooser.showSaveDialog( primaryStage);
if (file == null)
return;
int width = (int) bounds.getWidth();
int height = (int) bounds.getHeight();
SnapshotParameters parameters = new SnapshotParameters();
parameters.setFill(Color.TRANSPARENT);
parameters.setViewport(new Rectangle2D( bounds.getMinX(), bounds.getMinY(), width, height));
WritableImage wi = new WritableImage( width, height);
imageView.snapshot(parameters, wi);
// save image
// !!! has bug because of transparency (use approach below) !!!
// --------------------------------
// try {
// ImageIO.write(SwingFXUtils.fromFXImage( wi, null), "jpg", file);
// } catch (IOException e) {
// e.printStackTrace();
// }
// save image (without alpha)
// --------------------------------
BufferedImage bufImageARGB = SwingFXUtils.fromFXImage(wi, null);
BufferedImage bufImageRGB = new BufferedImage(bufImageARGB.getWidth(), bufImageARGB.getHeight(), BufferedImage.OPAQUE);
Graphics2D graphics = bufImageRGB.createGraphics();
graphics.drawImage(bufImageARGB, 0, 0, null);
try {
ImageIO.write(bufImageRGB, "jpg", file);
System.out.println( "Image saved to " + file.getAbsolutePath());
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
graphics.dispose();
}
/**
* Drag rectangle with mouse cursor in order to get selection bounds
*/
public static class RubberBandSelection {
final DragContext dragContext = new DragContext();
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle();
Group group;
public Bounds getBounds() {
return rect.getBoundsInParent();
}
public RubberBandSelection( Group group) {
this.group = group;
rect = new Rectangle( 0,0,0,0);
rect.setStroke(Color.BLUE);
rect.setStrokeWidth(1);
rect.setStrokeLineCap(StrokeLineCap.ROUND);
rect.setFill(Color.LIGHTBLUE.deriveColor(0, 1.2, 1, 0.6));
group.addEventHandler(MouseEvent.MOUSE_PRESSED, onMousePressedEventHandler);
group.addEventHandler(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DRAGGED, onMouseDraggedEventHandler);
group.addEventHandler(MouseEvent.MOUSE_RELEASED, onMouseReleasedEventHandler);
}
EventHandler<MouseEvent> onMousePressedEventHandler = new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
@Override
public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
if( event.isSecondaryButtonDown())
return;
// remove old rect
rect.setX(0);
rect.setY(0);
rect.setWidth(0);
rect.setHeight(0);
group.getChildren().remove( rect);
// prepare new drag operation
dragContext.mouseAnchorX = event.getX();
dragContext.mouseAnchorY = event.getY();
rect.setX(dragContext.mouseAnchorX);
rect.setY(dragContext.mouseAnchorY);
rect.setWidth(0);
rect.setHeight(0);
group.getChildren().add( rect);
}
};
EventHandler<MouseEvent> onMouseDraggedEventHandler = new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
@Override
public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
if( event.isSecondaryButtonDown())
return;
double offsetX = event.getX() - dragContext.mouseAnchorX;
double offsetY = event.getY() - dragContext.mouseAnchorY;
if( offsetX > 0)
rect.setWidth( offsetX);
else {
rect.setX(event.getX());
rect.setWidth(dragContext.mouseAnchorX - rect.getX());
}
if( offsetY > 0) {
rect.setHeight( offsetY);
} else {
rect.setY(event.getY());
rect.setHeight(dragContext.mouseAnchorY - rect.getY());
}
}
};
EventHandler<MouseEvent> onMouseReleasedEventHandler = new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
@Override
public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
if( event.isSecondaryButtonDown())
return;
// remove rectangle
// note: we want to keep the ruuberband selection for the cropping => code is just commented out
/*
rect.setX(0);
rect.setY(0);
rect.setWidth(0);
rect.setHeight(0);
group.getChildren().remove( rect);
*/
}
};
private static final class DragContext {
public double mouseAnchorX;
public double mouseAnchorY;
}
}
}
Screenshot:
Cropped image:
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