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Displaying a splash image with Java 6


Introduced in Java 6 is the option of displaying a splash screen when an application starts. The splash image file can be specified on the command line with the new splash option -splash:splash.jpg or in the manifest of a jar file with the SplashScreen-Image option.
The program can access at runtime the splash screen image through the SplashScreen class. This class cannot be created directly and its sole instance can be obtained calling SplashScreen.getSplashScreen(). The splash screen image is closed automatically when the first AWT/Swing window is displayed or it can be closed using the API.

The programmer can draw on an overlay image displayed on top of the splash image. Direct access to the displayed splash image is not provided but the splash image can be changed at runtime.

The next example shows how to use the splash screen features. It draws text and a progress bar on top of the splash image specified as a JVM command line parameter. It also changes the splash image from time to time. The splash images are expected to be in the current directory.

Filed under: Java API by Daniel Pietraru

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2 Responses to “Displaying a splash image with Java 6”

  1. James, on April 30th, 2008 at 7:08 am Said:

    Hi – very nice article.
    We’d really like to see this on JavaLobby. If you’re interested in reposting please contact me and we can organize it.

    Regards
    James

  2. Daniel Pietraru, on April 30th, 2008 at 8:37 am Said:

    Thanks James, I will contact you.

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