Question

This is my 3rd SO question. Please help again… I want to put up a splashscreen on my applet. In doing so, I used the JWindow component. I already used it in creating splashscreens for my stand-alone java application so I thought it will also work on applet. The problem is, it does not work. Is Jwindow usable with applet? is there a better way to accomplish this? tnx a lot!

I instantiate LoadingScreen object in the applet’s start method?
Here is the code:

public class LoadingScreen extends JWindow{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private Image image1;
private ImageIcon icon1;

public LoadingScreen(){
//image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("WebContent/images/loadbar.gif");
image1 = getImage(getCodeBase(), "images/loadbar.gif");

icon1= new ImageIcon(image1);
setSize(icon1.getIconWidth(), icon1.getIconHeight());
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
setVisible(true);

try{
//Make JWindow appear for 5 seconds before disappear
Thread.sleep(5000);
dispose();
System.exit(0);
 }catch(Exception exception){
exception.printStackTrace();
}
} 
 public void paint(Graphics g){
   super.paint(g);
   g.drawImage(image1,0,0,null);
}

}

Update!
Problem solved. The call to the static Thread.sleep method inside the applet start method sort of stop the resources (image) from loading.. that’s why it’s not showing. It was fixed by creating a separate timer Thread to do the actual counting… Just so everyone knows…:)

Answer 1

Problem solved. The call to the static Thread.sleep method inside the applet start method sort of stop the resources (image) from loading.. that’s why it’s not showing. It was fixed by creating a separate timer Thread to do the actual counting… Just so everyone knows…:)