Launcher Wizard: Configure Splash Screen

In this step of the launcher wizard, you can configure a splash screen for your application.

If the "Show splash screen" check box is selected, the Java splash screen is shown with the specified image file. If you decide to display a splash screen, you have to enter an image file. The file format can be PNG or GIF.

Please note that you cannot specify the -splash: VM parameter in the "Java Invocation" step, since this VM parameter is parsed by the default Java launchers (java.exe and javaw.exe) which are not used by install4j. An exception is the argument -J-splash:none which can be used to disable the splash screen from the command line on Windows.

If you select the "Native splash screen on Windows" option, Windows launchers will use its own implementation of a splash screen that can be shown extremely quickly. The native splash screen does not support translucent images. In that case, you cannot use the java.awt.SplashScreen API to modify the splash screen. However, the text lines on the splash screen work with the native splash screen as well.