| Summary: | Creating splash screens in Java by using AWT and Swing is well documented in the current literature. However, the existing solutions are not fully featured in that documentation and do not explain all the intricacies of threading in Swing. This tip presents a splash-screen component on which the user can click to make it disappear. In addition, the component will also have a timer controlling the splash screen so that it will automatically disappear after a set period of time. (1,000 words)
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