I am trying to create a Toaster Window to display a small piece of text for
informative purposes in my GUI.  My code is below: the window shows fine but
I want it to disappear after a given time, however the timer never fires,
can anybody tell me why?

Also, is there a way to make the text area appear to be maximised within the
JFrame?

Thanks
Allan

/*
* ToasterWindow.java
*
* Created on 12 March 2006, 23:05
*/

package GUI;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

/**
* A toaster window is a small window that displays some text at the bottom
* right of the screen.
* @author Allan M. Bruce
*/
public class ToasterWindow extends JFrame
{
   private String mText;

   private static final int WIDTH = 150,
                            HEIGHT = 100,
                            Y_OFFSET = 25,
                            DISPLAY_TIME = 5000;

   private Timer mTimer;

   private void createWindow()
   {
       // set position
       Dimension lScrnSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
       this.setLocation(lScrnSize.width - WIDTH,
                        lScrnSize.height - HEIGHT-Y_OFFSET);
       setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
       toFront();

       // add the text area
       getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
       JPanel lPanel = new JPanel();
       getContentPane().add(lPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
       JTextArea lTextArea = new JTextArea();
       lTextArea.setText(mText);
       lTextArea.setEditable(false);
       lPanel.add(lTextArea);

       // set visible
       setVisible(true);
   }

   private void destroy()
   {
       mTimer.stop();
       hide();
   }

   /**
    * Creates a new instance of ToasterWindow
    * @param xiText Text to display inside toaster window
    */
   public ToasterWindow(String xiText)
   {
       super();
       mText = xiText;

       createWindow();

       mTimer = new Timer(DISPLAY_TIME, new ActionListener()
       {
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent xiEvent)
          {
              System.out.println("Timer Fired"); // temp
              destroy();
          }
       });
   }

}