Vaibhav ChoudharyMember Technical Staff,
Sun Microsystems
Customizing JavaFX Splash Screen
With the JavaFX technology it is easy to build your own customized Splash Screen in place of Default Java Logo.
Understanding the Code
The code shown in Figure 1 creates JavaFX Custom Splash Screen, which enables the user to easily replace the default splash screen of Java Logo. The user can define few parameters in html applet page like loading_image_url, loading_image_height, loading_image_width.
Source Code
archive: "CustomSplashScreen.jar",
draggable: true,
width: 400,
height: 250,
loading_image_url: "http://blogs.sun.com/vaibhav/resource/Splash_javafx.gif"
loading_image_height: 128
loading_image_width: 128
code: "customsplashscreen.Main",
name: "CustomSplashScreen"
}
);
Figure 1: Applet HTML Page for CustomSplashScreen
Changing Parameters such as loading_image_url,loading_image_height, loading_image_width is easy in CustomSplashScreen.html
Main.fxSource Code
var vis = false; //Sets visibility of Close button
var media = Media {
source: "http://sun.edgeboss.net/download/sun/media/1460825906/1460825906_2956241001_big-buck-bunny-640x360.flv"
}
var mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer {
autoPlay: true
media: media
}
var mediaView = MediaView {
translateY: 20
fitWidth: 400
mediaPlayer: mediaPlayer
}
Figure 2: Code for Media Player
Source Code
extensions: [
AppletStageExtension {
onDragStarted: function() {
vis = true;
}
onAppletRestored: function() {
vis = false;
}
useDefaultClose: false
}
]
Figure 4: Screen Capture of Splash Image