Properly Loading a Image

Question

Hi,
I am working on a GameEngine program and one of the things I need it to do is to make sure that it properly loads the image before it tries to use it.
To do this I have in the constructor for my GameImage object a call to a function which has this code:
boolean isLoaded = false;
while(!isLoaded)
    if(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().prepareImage(i,-1,-1,this)) //i is the image in the parameters
     isLoaded = true;So, what this code does is while it is not loaded it does calls prepareImage which returns true if it is loaded and false if it is not. If it is it sets isLoaded = true to stop the while, then the function just ends.
Is this the best way or is there a more efficent, faster way of doing this?
(I just kind of made how to do this function up myself)

Answer 1

How I have it set up now, when the object is created
it creates an instance of MediaTracker, adds it, and
waits for it.
Would it make a significant difference if I was to
create one instance of MediaTracker, add them all to
that one, then load them all at once?Okay, I answered my own question, and the answer is yes.
My load time for my images went from an average of about 25 seconds down to 1.5 seconds (This was loading 3 images, then setting 1 to a scaled instance of one of the first 3 loaded. The total size is about probably about 100KB). That is a significant difference, although, I am going to see if I can stream line it even more.