Hey
I'm trying to get a splash screen going for my application but having a problem in finding the image once the splash screen is called it returns a null.
I'm trying to use the java standard 6 way where the splash screen is displayed before the jvm is started and is displayed until a swing or awt container is displayed.
if (splash == null) {
System.out.println("SplashScreen.getSplashScreen() returned null");
return;
}
it fails at this point and returns null and continues on with the rest of the program as normal.
full code is as follows
package tree;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class splashScreen extends Frame implements ActionListener {
static void renderSplashFrame(Graphics2D g, int frame) {
final String[] comps = {"foo", "bar", "baz"};
g.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Clear);
g.fillRect(130,250,280,40);
g.setPaintMode();
g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
g.drawString("Loading "+comps[(frame/5)%3]+"...", 130, 260);
g.fillRect(130,270,(frame*10)%280,20);
}
public splashScreen() {
super("SplashScreen demo");
setSize(500, 300);
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
Menu m1 = new Menu("File");
MenuItem mi1 = new MenuItem("Exit");
m1.add(mi1);
mi1.addActionListener(this);
MenuBar mb = new MenuBar();
setMenuBar(mb);
mb.add(m1);
final SplashScreen splash = SplashScreen.getSplashScreen();
if (splash == null) {
System.out.println("SplashScreen.getSplashScreen() returned null");
return;
}
Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D)splash.createGraphics();
if (g == null) {
System.out.println("g is null");
return;
}
for(int i=0; i<100; i++) {
renderSplashFrame(g, i);
splash.update();
try {
Thread.sleep(200);
}
catch(InterruptedException e) {
}
}
splash.close();
setVisible(true);
toFront();
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
System.exit(0);
}
public static void main (String args[]) {
splashScreen test = new splashScreen();
}
}
The manifest code is
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: tree/splashScreen
SplashScreen-Image: tree/splash.png
not sure if i have this right so this is my file format :
myTree -project name
scr
HelpPanells -package
tree -package
splashScreen.java
splash.png
tree.exercises -package
tree.exercises.pictures -package
tree.icon -package
this is just a basic representation of the project hope it helps you to help me as i'm stumped at this point
Thanks
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