🚀 go-pugleaf

I found a very nice FREE API for JFC/Swing that solves my problem. It's 
called Foxtrot.

Tom



"Paul Furbacher [TeamB]" <pfurbacher@mac.com> wrote in message 
news:43e95c3d$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> tom wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your suggestion. I do not need a progress dialog. I just want 
>> to use a real simple splash screen to display some text while the java 
>> application is loading.
>> I tried JDialog and JWindow; however, I can not get the text to display 
>> on the contentPane unless I set the setModal to true, which it's kind of 
>> defeating the purpose.
>>
>> Once I set the setModal to true, it takes over the current process 
>> thread. It will not continue until I manuall close the dialog.
>>
>> Am I missing something here? Please take a look at the following code 
>> snip.
>
> Yes, you are missing exactly what was discussed in those
> articles.  Please take the time to look at them.  All
> you have to do is apply the principle in those articles.
> The only difference is that you are not changing the text.
> Conceptually it's the same whether there's dynamic update
> or not.  It's a threading issue, and those articles will
> prime your thinking to deal with it correctly.
>
>
> -- 
>
>
> Paul Furbacher (TeamB)
>
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>
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