REPOST: White Rectangle Before Splash Screen

Question

I reposted this topic because the last one got too long and full of code without any progress towards a solution. I'm trying to show a splash screen without the white rectangle flashing first. I tried placing the setVisible(true) statement at the end of my splash screen code, no luck. There has got to be some way to stop the white screen from appearing until the image has loaded!! By the way, my image is only 5 KB! If that's too big, something is definitely wrong.
I believe the problem lies in the following code...
public void start()
Thread thread = new Thread()
public void run()
Runnable run = new Runnable()
public void run()
try
Thread.sleep(3000);
catch(Exception e)
dispose();
setVisible(true);
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(run);
thread.start();
Previous posting...
http://forums.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=268231

Answer 1

Hey mtnkid420,
If you had to painfully concede to the white screen that flashes up, I empathise with you. I have the solution for you now, albeit 3 years late - posting also for those who are currently mythed by the pre-splash white screen.
It was the suggestion, although rebutted, that loading larger images causes the problem. If the diagnosis was correct, the usual solution would be to load and draw the image off-screen i.e. to a BufferedImage... and you know what, it worked.
Here is a code snippet if required:
     private Splash(int displayTime, Class application)
     throws IllegalArgumentException, SecurityException, IllegalAccessException,
     NoSuchFieldException, IOException, InterruptedException
          this.displayTime = displayTime;
          splashPath = String.valueOf(application.getField("SPLASH_PATH").get(null));
          URL splashURL = application.getClassLoader().getResource(splashPath);
          Image img = ImageIO.read(splashURL);
          MediaTracker tracker = new MediaTracker(this);
          tracker.addImage(img, 1);
          tracker.waitForID(1);
          splashImage = new BufferedImage(500, 300, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
          Graphics g = splashImage.getGraphics();
          g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, 500, 300, this);
          setSize(500, 300);
          setLocationRelativeTo(null);
          splash();
     } // end primary constructor
     public void paint(Graphics g)
          g.drawImage(splashImage, 0, 0, this);
     } // end paintThis code will not compile as is, but it serves the purpose to illustrate BufferedImage usage.
Warm regards,
Darren B