How to Create a Splash Screen in Java

Submitted by donbermoy on Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 18:27.

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This is a tutorial in which we will going to create a program that will have a Splash Screen in Java. So, now let's start this tutorial! 1. Open JCreator or NetBeans and make a java program with a file name of splashScreen.java. 2. Import the following packages:

import java.awt.*; //used to access the Color, Dimension, and Toolkit class
import javax.swing.*; //use the JWindow and JLabel class

3. Initialize your variable in your Main. The variable window for JWindow because we will use a window to hold other components as it will have no border and title.

	JWindow window = new JWindow();

We will make an Integer variable named duration that will have the value of 5000. This 5000 will be equal to 5 seconds. This will trigger the window to display in 5 seconds. You can also change the value of it of whatever you like.

int duration = 5000;

We will create variables for the screen width and height. We will named it as width and height integer variable.

    int width = 450; 
    int height = 115;

Next, we will get the screen size of our computer. We will use the Dimension class and named it as variable screen. Then we will create another variable the x and y as Integer to get the center location of the screen. Have this code below:

    int x = (screen.width - width) / 2;
    int y = (screen.height - height) / 2;

4. We can set the size and location of our window using the setBounds method.

window.setBounds(x, y, width, height);

Add a label on the window using the add method and have it in Center position of the default BorderLayout as layout manager.

window.getContentPane().add(new JLabel("This is a Splash Screen"),"Center");

To set the background color of the JWindow, we will have the setBackground method. And set its visibility to true as we will use the setVisible method.

   window.getContentPane().setBackground(Color.CYAN); 
    window.setVisible(true);

5. We will create then a try and catch method. In the try, we will be using a Thread and its sleep method and put inside variable duration on it. This will trigger the screen to be faded out in 5 seconds.

    try {
      Thread.sleep(duration);
    } catch (Exception e) {
    }

After executing the try and catch method, we will make use of the setVisible method and will be equal to false to hide the window after 5 seconds (this is because of the duration=5000) of displaying it.

window.setVisible(false);

Output: output

Here's the full code of this tutorial:

import java.awt.*; //used to access the Color, Dimension, and Toolkit class
import javax.swing.*; //use the JWindow and JLabel class
public class splashScreen {
 
  public static void main(String[] args) {
 
 
  	JWindow window = new JWindow();
    int duration = 5000;
    int width = 450; 
    int height = 115;
 
    Dimension screen = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
 
    int x = (screen.width - width) / 2;
    int y = (screen.height - height) / 2;
 
    window.setBounds(x, y, width, height);
    window.getContentPane().add(new JLabel("This is a Splash Screen"),"Center");
   window.getContentPane().setBackground(Color.CYAN); 
    window.setVisible(true);
    try {
      Thread.sleep(duration);
    } catch (Exception e) {
    }
    window.setVisible(false);
  }
}

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