Thread: Frame not showing Image until resized

EDIT Solved: I just realized I'm stupid and should have used "this" instead of "null" in drawImage().




I'm trying to create a simple window that shows a picture I have created, but it won't show the image until I have resized the window. I'm guessing paint() isn't being called properly, but I don't know. Here is the code:

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
 
public class start extends JFrame{
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		new start();			
	}
	private String filename = "C:\\item.gif";
	private Image i = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(filename);
 
	public start() {
		setSize(400, 300);
		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		setVisible(true);
	}
 
 
	public void paint(Graphics g) {
		g.drawImage(i, 50, 50, null);
	}
}

Note that this code works fine if I draw something other than an image(i.e. fillOval())