Thread: Easiest way to do this?

I've spend quite some time working on multiple games, all pretty much up to scratch on the development side of things, but i just want to add some prosthetic things, and one thing that i'm determined to add, i actually don't know the specific name for it, but it has the same job of a splash screen but it loads inside the gui, example... (This has been created using photoshop.)

When you open the game for 5-10 seconds you will see this:


Then after 5-10 the game will show...

EDIT: Can i simply do this, by drawing an image, then removing?

Example:
My Game updates every 5 milliseconds
so:

Timer startUpTimer;
boolean startupready = false;
 
if(startupready == false && startUpTimer < 5000) {
callImage
startUpTimer = new Timer(5000, this);
startUpTimer.start();
} else if(startUpTimer >= 5000) {
startupready = true;
startUpTimer.stop();
callnormalstartup.
}

or something along those lines, even though thats really badly writen...

I would browse the SplashScreen class and the tutorial on creating a splash screen. Even if this is not what you want to do, perhaps it will give you an idea of how things are done.

Yeah, i wrote a custom version of the splash screen class, and tried to apply it to an ImageIcon, but it didn't print out the picture at all...

Okay, right thanks. i'll remember to add more description in my titles as well thank-you for the feedback.