Hold a JFrame for a number of seconds

Question

I am experimenting with JFrames to get ahead on my project, but one thing is holding me back and I want to know if it possible. Can you have a frame come up on the screen for a number of seconds and then disappear and continue with the rest of the program? For example, say you are opening up a calculator. You run the program and it pops up with a welcome header. You want this header to display for, say 10 seconds, and then disappear and continue on to dislay the working calculator for the user. I am not into applets yet if that should make any kind of difference.

Answer 1

so you want a slash screen, yes you can.
frame.show();shows the frame, and
frame.hide();will hide the frame.
The easyest way would be
frame.show();
Thread.currentThread().sleep(1000 * 60 * 10); // wait 10 seconds.
frame.hide();However if you do this, you can not be setting up the second window, so something like
class HideFrameTask extends java.util.TimerTask {
   JFrame hideMe;
   public HideFrameTask ( JFrame hideMe ) {
    this.hideMe = hideMe;
   public void run() {
     hideMe.hide();
frame.show();
java.util.Timer timer = new java.util.Timer();
timer.schedule( new HideFrameTask( frame ), 1000 * 60 * 10 );
// make second frame