How to display numerical data on a splash page? Draw or text?

[dlite922]

I'm working on creating a splash page (code is below) but I'm having a hard time what's the best way to display the version number of the program.

I don't necessarily want to draw it if I don't have to.

What's the best way to approach this? Make the image the background of the window?

thanks,

 
    public void showSplash() {
 
        JPanel content = (JPanel)getContentPane();
        content.setBackground(Color.white);
 
        // Set the window's bounds, centering the window
        int width = 500;
        int height =340;
        Dimension screen = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        int x = (screen.width-width)/2;
        int y = (screen.height-height)/2;
        setBounds(x,y,width,height);
 
        // Build the splash screen
        JLabel label = new JLabel(new ImageIcon("src/com/echostar/ese/service_mapper/splash_v1_2.jpg"));
        JLabel copyrt = new JLabel("Version 0.1 Alpha", JLabel.CENTER);
        copyrt.setFont(new Font("Sans-Serif", Font.PLAIN ,12));
        content.add(label, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        content.add(copyrt, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 
        // Display it
        setVisible(true);
 
 
        // Wait a little while, maybe while loading resources
        try { Thread.sleep(duration); } catch (Exception e) {}
 
        setVisible(false);
 
    }
 
 

Dan

[Dheeraj Joshi]

Take the version info from a config file.

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi