by Les Hughes (leslie.hughes@rubus.com)
This task creates a splash screen. The splash screen is displayed for the duration of the build and includes a handy progress bar as well. Use in conjunction with the sound task to provide interest whilst waiting for your builds to complete...
| Attribute | Description | Required | Default |
| imageurl | A URL pointing to an image to display. | No | antlogo.gif from the classpath |
| showduration | Initial period to pause the build to show the splash in milliseconds. | No | 5000 ms |
| progressregexp | Progress regular expression which is used to
parse the output and dig out current progress. Exactly one group
pattern must exists, and it represents the progress number (0-100)
(i.e "Progress: (.*)%") since Apache Ant 1.8.0 |
No | progress is increased every action and log output line |
| displaytext | display text presented in the splash window since Ant 1.8.0 |
No | Building ... |
<setproxy> task, that makes it clear to readers of
the build exactly what is going on.
| useproxy | Use a proxy to access imgurl. Note: Only tested on JDK 1.2.2 and above | No | None |
| proxy | IP or hostname of the proxy server | No | None |
| port | Proxy portnumber | No | None |
| user | User to authenticate to the proxy as. | No | None |
| password | Proxy password | No | None |
<splash/>
Splash images/ant_logo_large.gif from the classpath.
<splash imageurl="http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo.gif"
useproxy="true"
showduration="5000"/>
Splashes the jakarta logo, for an initial period of 5 seconds.
Splash with controlled progress and nondefault text
<target name="test_new_features">
<echo>New features</echo>
<splash progressRegExp="Progress: (.*)%" showduration="0" displayText="Test text"/>
<sleep seconds="1"/>
<echo>Progress: 10%</echo>
<sleep seconds="1"/>
<echo>Progress: 20%</echo>
<sleep seconds="1"/>
<echo>Progress: 50%</echo>
<sleep seconds="1"/>
<echo>Progress: 70%</echo>
<sleep seconds="1"/>
<echo>Progress: 100%</echo>
<sleep seconds="3"/>
</target>