Resizing an ImageIcon

Question

I am trying to resize my image to fit my java screen but i keep getting this error "Syntax error on token ";", , expected "

There isnt much to the code either:

import java.awt.Image;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

public class Images 
{
    ImageIcon welcomeImage = new ImageIcon("WelcomeImage.PNG");
    Image image = welcomeImage.getImage();
    Image newImage = image.getScaledInstance(750, 500, java.awt.Image.SCALE_SMOOTH);//The error appears on this line
    welcomeImage = new ImageIcon(newImage);
    
}

Answer 1

You need to put your code in a method, not directly in the class definition.

Try this for instance:

import java.awt.Image;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

public class Images 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ImageIcon welcomeImage = new ImageIcon("WelcomeImage.PNG");
        Image image = welcomeImage.getImage();
        Image newImage = image.getScaledInstance(750, 500, java.awt.Image.SCALE_SMOOTH);//The error appears on this line
        welcomeImage = new ImageIcon(newImage);
    }
}