I've read all I can about what imageObserver is and how to
implement/use it.  After several hours of reading, I am still failing.
Here is a piece of my code - any help, pointer, or comments is
appreciated because as of right now, it's not fuctioning at all.

All that is supposed to happen is I want image map7bg.bmp to paint...
simple as that.

<code>
public class Engine extends Applet implements KeyListener,
ImageObserver
{
  <--code omited-->
  public void paint(Graphics g)
  {
     Image i = (Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit()).getImage
("C:/map7bg.bmp");
     g.drawImage(i,1,1, this); //also tried null instead of null
  }

  public boolean imageUpdate(Image img, int infoflags, int x, int y,
int width,int height)
  {
     return false;
  }
}
</code>

I added that imageUpdate method after reading about it online, seems I
need it for imageObserver to work.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Dima