BPanel

There is another class in BorlandBase called BPanel. This class allows for you to easily do a SplashScreen. To use it, extend BPanel. All of the methods you are used to you can use.

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
/**
 * Write a description of class SamplePanel here.
 * 
 * @author (your name) 
 * @version (a version number or a date)
 */
public class MySamplePanel extends BPanel
{
    BTextField textField = new BTextField();   
    JButton closeButton= new JButton ("Close"); 

    /**
     * This method will be called one time at the beginning of your applet/program
     */
    public void initialize()
    {
        setBackgroundColor(Color.red);
        addItem(textField);
        addItem(closeButton);    
    }

    /**
     * This method gets called if the button is pressed
     * c  is the component (button usually) that was pressed
     */
    public void buttonPressed (Component c)
    {
        echo ("action being performed");  //this is just like system.out.println - but shorter
        if (c == closeButton)
        {            
            closePanel();  
        }
    }

    //When someone presses the mouse button 
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) 
    {

    }

    /**
     * This method if you would like to do drawing on your screen
     */
    public void paintScreen (Graphics g)
    {       
    }
}

                

Then in your main program, stop animation, and open your panel as below.

stop(); //stop animation, if it is going
openPanel(new MySamplePanel(),true);    //the boolean is wether you want animation to go when the panel[splash screen] closes