Hi!

I have two problems with adding pictures to a JPanel.

Unfortunately if the amount of pictures I want to add is too high, it takes
a long time until my application goes on.
It waits until all pictures are loaded with a complete grey screen instead
of showing its normal behaviour.
How can I solve this problem? The answer to FAQ Q3.1 says something about
threads. Is there an other solution?

And the other problem: all pictures are added in one line. I would like to
have a newline after each 5 pictures.
I tried FlowLayout and GridLayout in combination with "SwingConstants.LEFT"
or ...RIGHT...
Is there a SwingConstant NewLineAfter or something like that?
I think GridLayout is best suitable layout for that kind of positioning the
pictures, but I don´t know how to do...

This is how I tried:

[code]
public void createContentPanel(Vector media){
...
while(i < media.size()){
  String temp = (String)media.get(i);
  try{
       temp_url = new URL(temp);
  }catch(Exception e){temp_url = null;System.out.print(false);}

   if(temp_url !=null){
      img = getToolkit().createImage(temp_url);

      ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(img);
      if(i%5==0)
           label = new JLabel("",icon,SwingConstants.LEFT);
      else
           label = new JLabel("",icon,SwingConstants.CENTER);

      contentPanel.add(la);
      i++;
 }
 repaint();
 setVisible(true);

[/code]

Thanks for any help!
pete