Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Hi everyone,

I'm having trouble creating a image object as I would like, it'll probably help if I explain what I'm trying to do...

I'm writing an applet with an 8x8 grid of buttons on representing a picture. Users click on the buttons to change their colour to make an image. (I then encode it to a JPEG so they can observe the difference).

The problem is that I have an integer array of the pixel values on screen (I'm using the system whereby 0 = white, 1 black, 2 red, 3 green and 4 is blue). Now the problem is that I don't know the values the pixels need to be to represent their colour in the image. Can anyone help me out with this?

The code I'm using is below.....

//pixels is my array of pixel values


for(int x = 0; x < pixels.length; x++)
{
//Need to update the pixel values to represent proper colour values
//8 bit RGB
if(pixels[x] == 1)
pixels[x] = 0;
else if(pixels[x] == 2)
pixels[x] = 0;
else if(pixels[x] == 3)
pixels[x] = 0;
else if(pixels[x] == 4)
pixels[x] = 0;
else
pixels[x] = -1;
}

//Create new image from pixel values...
image = createImage(new MemoryImageSource(8, 8, pixels ,0 ,8));

I'm converting the image to a BufferedImage (of type RGB int) after the AWT image is create to encode as a JPEG. Does the BufferedImage being 8bit RGB alter what values I should give the pixels before creating the AWT image?

Hope this all makes sense and you can help me out!

Thanks in advance,

Chris