Creating a nice "LOADING..." animation

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Pretty alternative to JProgressBar?

I have a process which takes several seconds to load, and I want to create an animation in Java Swing until it finishes loading.

I'd like to avoid using a typical ProgressBar and use a nice modern infinite progress like this one

infinite progress

I'm aware of similar questions but this is strictly Java Swing related. Is there any library or example for this?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/531831/505722 – Jim Oct 03 '11 at 11:44 — Jim, Oct 03 '11 at 11:44

score 44 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '11 at 11:48

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Just use a ImageIcon for this task, it automatically animates gifs. The code below produced this screenshot (the ajax-loader.gif was downloaded from http://www.ajaxload.info/):

screenshot

Code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test");

    ImageIcon loading = new ImageIcon("ajax-loader.gif");
    frame.add(new JLabel("loading... ", loading, JLabel.CENTER));

    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setSize(400, 300);
    frame.setVisible(true);
}

answered Oct 03 '11 at 11:48

dacwe

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Doh, didn't check for dups :P – dacwe Oct 03 '11 at 11:52
Thanks for the code. Sorry for dup posting! – Roman Rdgz Oct 03 '11 at 11:54
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how about hiding window menus and making it transparent? I think that's what he meant and not simply showing an icon inside a window. – dendini Jul 17 '14 at 06:41

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 23 '12 at 17:48

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I'd recommend using the glasspane for this type of activity. The steps involved are:

Create a JComponent with BorderLayout. Add a JLabel to the CENTER which includes the animated .gif icon of your choice.
(Optional) Override the paint(Graphics) method to make your GUI appear greyed out (or whited out). To achieve this you need to draw a filled rectangle the size of the component, filling the rectangle with a semi-transparent Color.
Add the component as the glasspane of your application's root frame.

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om-nom-nom

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answered Oct 03 '11 at 11:43

Adamski

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+1 Good merge candidate for the [duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/531831/pretty-alternative-to-jprogressbar). – trashgod Oct 05 '11 at 19:27
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adding a small code example? – dendini Jul 17 '14 at 06:40

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 03 '11 at 11:43

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Sure it's possible. You can use the tool AjaxLoad to generate an animated image, which can be used in any image/html container.

answered Oct 03 '11 at 11:43

Johan Sjöberg

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Would the down-voter care to share their reason? Given the lack of information in the question, this seems a valid answer. – Andrew Thompson Oct 03 '11 at 12:03
Not the down-voter, but probably won't work in a Swing component, which supports limited HTML but not Javascript. Possible merge candidate for the [duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/531831/pretty-alternative-to-jprogressbar). – trashgod Oct 05 '11 at 19:31
I'm skeptic about this answer, showing some working code might be appropriate. – dendini Jul 17 '14 at 06:42

Creating a nice "LOADING..." animation

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