How to create a Splash Screen in Java?

[DANIEL 602]

I have done the basic coding in Java from which I have developed an application. Now I want to create a Splash Screen for that application. I have tried to do lot of things but was not succeeding. So thought that you guys would help me.!! Please explain me how to create a Splash Screen in Java.?? Waiting for your response.!!

[Allan.d]

You might have observed that nowadays almost every applications have a Splash Screen. The splash screen are used for the following purposes :

• By using the splash screen you can indicate the user that the application is launching during long startup times.
• You can also advertise a product using the splash screen.
• You can provide an information that is only needed once per visit.

Java Foundation Classes, both Swing and Abstract Windowing Toolkit enable a developer to create splash screens in Java technology applications.

[Warner]

Displaying a splash screen at the startup of your application is very good idea for making a user to wait for sometime till the project gets loaded. While doing this you can also advertise anything by an image on the splash scree. You can use any gif, png, or jpeg image, with transparency, translucency, and animation for displaying on the splash scree. For closing the splash screen, changing the splash-screen image, painting in the splash screen, etc. can be done by using the SplashScreen class.

[MELTRONICS]

I think that looking at the code will mke you to understand more better. The following code snippet shows how to obtain a SplashScreen object. In that I have also created a a graphics context with the createGraphics() method. So have a look on the following example :

...
        final SplashScreen spl = SplashScreen.getSplashScreen();
        if (spl == null) {
            System.out.println("SplashScreen.getSplashScreen() returned null");
            return;
        }
        Graphics2D graph = spl.createGraphics();
        if (graph == null) {
            System.out.println("graph is null");
            return;
        }
...

[Deabelos]

The coding mentioned by the 'MELTRONICS' should work. I have not checked personally but seeing at that I can tell you that it is correct, since I have done many coding for splash screen. For displaying a Splash Screen, you can also use the Command-Line Argument. To display a splash screen from the command line use the -splash: command-line argument. Its the better option to display the splash screen from the command line. The following command can be used which is a Java application launcher option that displays a splash screen :

java -splash:<file name> <class name>