jPanel, printing colours (int)

Hi, I have an array of ints which represent an image and i want to display them as blocks of colour on a jpanel. I have looked through the docs, but I can't seem to make anything work!

My array pixelMap[]

,-8232397,-14798523,-4668741,-11453661,-13676685,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-1256524,-9206366,-1,-4418443,-5782302,0

My jpanel...

JPanel panel =new JPanel(new GridLayout(7,5));

Dimension e =new Dimension(40,40);

for (int y = 0; y < 35; y++){

JPanel z =new JPanel();

z.setPreferredSize(e);

z.setBackground(?) );

panel.add(z);

}

JFrame f =new JFrame();

f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

f.getContentPane().add(panel);

f.pack();

f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);

f.setVisible(true);

Thanks, Ron

[1203 byte] By [cakea] at [2007-11-27 2:11:57]