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();
   }

}