Eclipse Java application can't find resources

Question

I have a splash screen for an an application that I am making. It is a

JWindow

with a

JPanel

and a

JLabel

I then have an

ImageIcon

on the

JLabel

. The

ImageIcon

is loaded from an

InputStream

using

this.getClass.getResourceAsStream("GenericApp.png");

. My code for the splash screen is below:

final JWindow window = new JWindow();

JPanel jp = new JPanel();

InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("GenericApp.png");

Image image = null;

try {

    image = ImageIO.read(is);

} catch (IOException e1) {

    // TODO Auto-generated catch block

    e1.printStackTrace();

}

JLabel l = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(image));

window.add(jp);

jp.add(l);

window.setBounds(500, 150, 300, 200);

window.setVisible(true);

try{

    Thread.sleep(5000);

}catch(InterruptedException e){

    e.printStackTrace();

}

window.setVisible(false);

When I launch my project, I get a blank JWindow with the dimensions I set.

Answer 1

Here is how I solved it:

Apparently, the image takes a while to load. I was calling Thread.sleep(5000) before it finished loading the image and thus cutting off the display process. The moral of the story is that you almost never want to use Thread.sleep() USE TIMERS INSTEAD.

Regards,

Thomas

Eclipse Java application can't find resources

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