How to throw a program with two threads?

Question

Hello to everybody!
I'm using jdk 1.1.8 and I need to throw a program, and while this is running., i would show an image,
I have tried with 2 threads, but the image only is shown when the program is thrown, but not while,
Thanks in advance,
Silvia

Answer 1

Have you done something like:
a) create a Window with your Panel and image on it, display the Window
b) fork off a thread that launches your app
c) when the thread is finished launching the app, kill the splash window
Window splash= new YourSplashWindow(...);
splash.show(); // display your splash screen
YourLauncherRunnable launch = new YourLauncherRunnable(splash);
new Thread(launch).start(); // start a new thread to launch your app
// loop until the launcher thread tells the window to die
while(!splash.shouldStop())
  Thread.sleep(100);
// kill the window
splash.dispose();
class YourSplashWindow extends Window
  public boolean shouldStop() {return Stop;}
  boolean Stop = false;
  public YourSplashWindow()
    // set up the window here...
    setBounds(...); // sets pos and size
  public void killWindow()
    Stop = true;
class YourLauncherRunnable implements Runnable
  YourSplashWindow Win = null;
  public YourLauncherRunnable(YourSplashWindow w)
    Win = w;
  public void run()
    // do your launching here....
    // done launching the program, kill the splash window
    Win.killWindow();
}