Splash screen shows blank

From:
 Blade_runner <tbsetlalekgosi@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:49:43 -0700
Message-ID:
<1183708183.195326.278950@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
Gday

Can someone with a bit of expirence in Java help, i have a class that
call displays my screen in a thread that dies after 8 sec, but my
image does not appear. here is the code. Is the something i am
overlooking?

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
import javax.swing.border.LineBorder;

public class splashS extends JWindow {

    JPanel screenPane;

    /** Creates a new instance of splashS */
    public splashS() {

         setBackground(Color.WHITE);

    }

    public void showSplash()
 {

        JPanel screenPane = (JPanel)getContentPane();
        screenPane.setBackground(Color.WHITE);

        int width = 450;
        int height =115;
        Dimension screen =
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        int x = (screen.width-width)/2;
        int y = (screen.height-height)/2;
        setBounds(x,y,width,height);

         screenPane.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        JLabel label = new JLabel(new ImageIcon("images/
VibrantSplash.jpg"));

            screenPane.add(label, BorderLayout.CENTER);
            Color oraRed = new Color(156, 20, 20, 255);
      screenPane.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(oraRed,
10));
        setVisible(true);

    try
    {
        Thread.sleep(5000);
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

       dispose();
    }

}

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