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Subject: Re: splash screen
From: bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com>
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On Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:18:40 PM UTC-6, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:11:31 -0800 (PST), bob smith
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> <bob@coolfone.comze.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
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> who said :
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> 
> >What is the standard way most desktop Java programmers do a splash screen?
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> see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/splash.html
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> It documents six different techniques with sample code for most of
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> them.
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> -- 
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> Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
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> The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.
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> The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development 
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> time. 
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> ~ Tom Cargill  Ninety-ninety Law



It seems to work, but it would be nice if it centered the splash screen instead of doing this:

      this.setLocation( 150, 150 );

Here's some code to center it:
      
      int image_width = image.getWidth(null);
      int image_height = image.getWidth(null);
      
      Dimension screen_dim = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();

      this.setLocation( (screen_dim.width - image_width)/2, (screen_dim.height - image_height)/2 );