How to make a game loading screen

[hasharts]

Hi,

Can anybody plc tell me how to make a game loading screen. I have already made one but that is only a sprite animation ( shows a loading bar). How would I know exactly the game is loaded. I want to complete my animation when the game is loaded.

Regards,
Hashani

[DevelopmentTeam]

Usually we do it in 2 different ways for showing a realistic progress bar.
1) If we have 50 images to be loaded for every level, we increase the progress by 2 after loading every image successfully. This is the simplest way you can do it and its the most efficient way doing it though not exactly a realistic one.
2) You can create a separate thread for showing the progress bar and use different thread for loading the resources. After every resource is loaded you have to increase the progress according to the size of resources loaded. This is not recommended as threading is always an issue in many devices. And knowing the percentage of a single resource loaded cannot be determined using J2ME.

[hasharts]

Thank you for the early reply. I'll try it and c. Thanks again.

Regards,
Hashani

[DevelopmentTeam]

Sure, please do post your progress on it.