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Hello. This is a very interesting problem for all programmers and students. I have my spalsh screen class which displays a splash when run from the main method in the same class. However when run from another class( in my case from my login class, when user name and password is validated) I create an instance of the class and show it. But the image in the splash is not shown. Only a squared white background is visible!!!.
I am sending the two classes
Can u tell me why and propose a solution. Thanks.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class SplashScreen extends JWindow {
private int duration;
public SplashScreen(int d) {
duration = d;
// A simple little method to show a title screen in the center
// of the screen for the amount of time given in the constructor
public void showSplash() {
JPanel content = (JPanel)getContentPane();
content.setBackground(Color.white);
// Set the window's bounds, centering the window
int width = 300;
int height =400;
Dimension screen = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
int x = (screen.width-width)/2;
int y = (screen.height-height)/2;
setBounds(x,y,width,height);
// Build the splash screen
JLabel label = new JLabel(new ImageIcon("logo2.gif"));
JLabel copyrt = new JLabel
("Copyright 2004, Timetabler 2004", JLabel.CENTER);
copyrt.setFont(new Font("Sans-Serif", Font.BOLD, 16));
content.add(label, BorderLayout.CENTER);
content.add(copyrt, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
Color oraRed = new Color(100, 50, 80, 120);
content.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(oraRed, 10));
// Display it
setVisible(true);
// Wait a little while, maybe while loading resources
try { Thread.sleep(duration); } catch (Exception e) {}
setVisible(false);
public void showSplashAndExit() {
showSplash();
// System.exit(0);
// CLASS CALLING THE SPLASH
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.applet.AudioClip;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.net.URL;
public class login extends JDialog
String username;
String password;
JTextField text1;
JPasswordField text2;
login()
//super("Login To TIMETABLER");
text1=new JTextField(10);
text2 = new JPasswordField(10);
text2.setEchoChar('*');
JLabel label1=new JLabel("Username");
JLabel label2=new JLabel("Password");
label1.setFont(new Font("Garamond",Font.BOLD,16));
label2.setFont(new Font("Garamond",Font.BOLD,16));
JButton ok=new JButton(" O K ");
ok.setActionCommand("ok");
ok.setOpaque(false);
ok.setFont(new Font("Garamond",Font.BOLD,14));
ok.setBackground(SystemColor.controlHighlight);
ok.setForeground(SystemColor.infoText);
ok.addActionListener(new ActionListener (){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
System.out.println("ddddd");
//validatedata();
ReadText mytext1=new ReadText();
ReadText2 mytext2=new ReadText2();
String value1=mytext1.returnpassword();
String value2=mytext2.returnpassword();
String user=text1.getText();
String pass=text2.getText();
System.out.println("->"+value1);
System.out.println("->"+value2);
System.out.println("->"+user);
System.out.println("->"+pass);
if ( (user.equals(value1)) && (pass.equals(value2)) )
System.out.println("->here");
// setVisible(false);
// mainpage m=new mainpage();
// m.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
// m.callsplash();
/// m.setSize(640,640);
// m.show();
//m.setVisible(true);
SplashScreen splash = new SplashScreen(5000);
// Normally, we'd call splash.showSplash() and get on with the program.
// But, since this is only a test...
splash.showSplashAndExit();
else
{ text1.setText("");
text2.setText("");
//JOptionPane.MessageDialog(null,
// "Your Password is Incorrect"
JButton cancel=new JButton(" C A N C E L ");
cancel.setActionCommand("cancel");
cancel.setOpaque(false);
cancel.setFont(new Font("Garamond",Font.BOLD,14));
cancel.setBackground(SystemColor.controlHighlight);
cancel.setForeground(SystemColor.infoText);
cancel.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
dispose();
System.exit(0);
JPanel pan1=new JPanel(new GridLayout(2,1,20,20));
JPanel pan2=new JPanel(new GridLayout(2,1,20,20));
JPanel pan3=new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER,20,20));
pan1.setOpaque(false);
pan2.setOpaque(false);
pan3.setOpaque(false);
pan1.add(label1);
pan1.add(label2);
pan2.add(text1);
pan2.add(text2);
pan3.add(ok);
pan3.add(cancel);
JPanel_Background main=new JPanel_Background();
JPanel mainpanel=new JPanel(new BorderLayout(25,25));
mainpanel.setOpaque(false);
// mainpanel.setBorder(new BorderLayout(25,25));
mainpanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder
("Login To Timetabler Vision"),BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(10,20,10,20)));
mainpanel.add("West",pan1);
mainpanel.add("Center",pan2);
mainpanel.add("South",pan3);
main.add(mainpanel);
getContentPane().add(main);
void validatedata()
ReadText mytext1=new ReadText();
ReadText2 mytext2=new ReadText2();
String value1=mytext1.returnpassword();
String value2=mytext2.returnpassword();
String user=text1.getText();
String pass=text2.getText();
System.out.println("->"+value1);
System.out.println("->"+value2);
System.out.println("->"+user);
System.out.println("->"+pass);
if ( (user.equals(value1)) && (pass.equals(value2)) )
SplashScreen splash = new SplashScreen(5000);
splash.showSplashAndExit();
dispose();
else
{ text1.setText("");
text2.setText("");
//JOptionPane.MessageDialog(null,
// "Your Password is Incorrect"
public void callsplash()
{SplashScreen splash= new SplashScreen(1500);
splash.showSplashAndExit();
public static void main(String args[])
{ login m=new login();
Dimension screenSize=Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
int screenPositionX=(int)(screenSize.width/2-390/2);
int screenPositionY=(int)(screenSize.height/2-260/2);
m.setLocation(screenPositionX, screenPositionY);
//m.setResizable(false);
m.setSize(600,500);
m.setSize(390,260);
m.setVisible(true);

Hi Luis,
Use tcode XK99 for vendor mass change, select the Fax no field. You have to take note that this changes will be only 1 fax number for all vendors.
Else you have to use BAPI for mass change.
regards,
maia

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    is there any script or addition i can make to my system to automatically generate icons for pics and vids of all types? how to i suggest to mac that they add this functionality into the next release?
    thanks for your time,
    max

    The Finder will create icons "on the fly" for nearly all graphic type files (jpegs, tiff, psd, and so on) and display them in both icon view and column view, provided the appropriate view preference has been set. Movies will just have the generic movie icon in icon view, and have a "live" preview in column view, ie you can play them in preview mode. If you want to add a permanent thumbnail which will display in all views, and whether or not the preference has been set for a particular folder in Finder, you'll need to add a thumbnail to the file. There are lots of ways to do this for static pictures, even rather clumsy ways to do it for movies, but the easiest thing is to get CocoThumbX:
    http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/
    Drag and drop both static pictures and movie files onto the application and a permanent thumbnail is created. Indeed, it will create cool thumbs even for things like PDF and HTML files (code or rendered display). For movies to get a thumb, they must be in a format that QuickTime can read. It has a set of preferences for just how you want the thumb determined (eg random or at a certain time), and you can drop batches of movies or even folders to have it assign thumbs to multiple movies at the same time. It is a way cool piece of shareware.
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