Hi guys need Help with Displaying Splash Screen?!!?

Question

Hi Guys.
Sorry for the last incomplete post my mistake!
I need help displaying a splash screen as an advertisment or something before i have my main application run.
Here is the code i wrote (it works as if it were a seperate application)
package MajourProject;
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JProgressBar;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
* @author Matt
public class SplashScreen extends JWindow
    public SplashScreen()
        int UpTime = 20000;
        Start(UpTime);
    public void Start(int UpTime)
        ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon("src/1.jpg");
          JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(new JLabel(ii));
                JProgressBar Bar = new JProgressBar();
          getContentPane().add(jsp);
          setSize(853,303);
          centerScreen();
          setVisible(true);
               try
                            Thread.sleep(20000);
                           dispose();
               catch(Exception IE)
        private void centerScreen()
                Dimension d = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
                int x = (int) ((d.getWidth() - getWidth()) / 2);
          int y = (int) ((d.getHeight() - getHeight()) / 2);
          setLocation(x, (y-100));
       public static void main(String [] args)
             new SplashScreen();
}but i now have a problem as i already have a main application done as i wrote this seperately. I now need to combine the two together. So what i did was in my Main Application wrote:
Splash_Screen SS = new Splash_Screen();it then runs my Splash Screen class which i re-wrote to look as such:
package MajourProject;
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JProgressBar;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
* @author Matt
public class SplashScreen extends JWindow
    public SplashScreen()
        int time = 15000;
        Start(time);
    public void Start(int UpTime)
        ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon("src/1.jpg");
          JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(new JLabel(ii));
                JProgressBar Bar = new JProgressBar();
          getContentPane().add(jsp);
          setSize(853,303);
          centerScreen();
          setVisible(true);
               try
                            Thread.sleep(20000);
                            dispose();
               catch(Exception IE)
        private void centerScreen()
                Dimension d = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
                int x = (int) ((d.getWidth() - getWidth()) / 2);
          int y = (int) ((d.getHeight() - getHeight()) / 2);
          setLocation(x, (y-100));
}it obviously runs the default constructor which then runs the other methods in the class but it doesn't seem to show can anybody help me to find out whats wrong? It seems to be there just before the main application launches but only for a split second. And when i am waiting while the thread is sleeping the area i have defined the Content pane for he cursor goes to the loading icon! I don't know if this makes any sence to you but if you can help me it would be most apreciated.
Thanks.

Answer 1

SpearOne wrote:
Hi Encephalopathic
why would it work if i put it in it's own application surely it wouldn't be caused by this thread.sleep?? everything after it is in fact put to sleep. In its "own" application, nothing happens after it is displayed.
if it is the problem then could you please give me some code to add quickly to test??
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JProgressBar;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class SplashScreen extends JWindow
  private static final String IMAGE_PATH = "src/1.jpg";
  private static final int UP_TIME = 15000;
  public SplashScreen()
    Start();
  public void Start()
    ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon(IMAGE_PATH);
    JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(new JLabel(ii));
    //JProgressBar Bar = new JProgressBar();
    getContentPane().add(jsp);
    setSize(853, 303);
    centerScreen();
  private void centerScreen()
    Dimension d = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
    int x = (int) ((d.getWidth() - getWidth()) / 2);
    int y = (int) ((d.getHeight() - getHeight()) / 2);
    setLocation(x, (y - 100));
  public static void main(String[] args)
    final JFrame frame = new JFrame("Main Frame");
    frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300, 200));
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    final SplashScreen splash = new SplashScreen();
    splash.setVisible(true);
    Timer swingTimer = new Timer(UP_TIME, new ActionListener()
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
        splash.dispose();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    swingTimer.setRepeats(false);
    swingTimer.start();
}