Slide Jlabel In Jframe: Creating A Slick Effect

Here is how to slide JLabel in JFrame to create an animated slick effect. The aktivitas consists of a simple JLabel with an ImageIcon that slides about x-axis from one side to the center. Here is the program.

 import javax.swing.*;
 import java.awt.*;
 import java.awt.event.*;
 import javax.swing.event.*;
 import java.awt.image.*;
 class AnimateJLabel extends JFrame
 {
 JLabel l;
 ImageIcon icon;
 Timer t;
 int x=0;
 
  public AnimateJLabel()
  {
   createAndShowGUI();
  }
  
  private void createAndShowGUI()
  {
   // Set frame properties
   setTitle("Animate JLabel");
   setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
   setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
   
   // Create an ImageIcon
   icon=new ImageIcon("D:\\Documents and Settings\\Gutha\\My Documents\\Downloads\\cloud_icon.png");  
   
   // Create a JLabel
   l=new JLabel("Java-Demos.blogspot.com");
   
   // Set the text position bottom center relative
   // to the icon so that the icon appears as a
   // a desktop icon
   l.setVerticalTextPosition(SwingConstants.BOTTOM);
   l.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);
   
   // Set the icon to the JLabel
   l.setIcon(icon);
   
   // Set some font
   l.setFont(new Font("Myriad Pro",Font.PLAIN,28));
   
   // Initially, the label isn't visible
   l.setVisible(false);
   
   // Add the JLabel
   add(l);
    
   // Create a Timer with that executes
   // each 1ms
   t=new Timer(1,new ActionListener(){
   
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
    {
     // First time, make the JLabel visible
     // You don't need to call this again because
     // the label is visible when this is first
     // executed. Calling it every time the timer fires
     // is redundant
     if(x==0) l.setVisible(true);
     
     // Set the location, only the x-co ordinate gets
     // updated (incremented by 1 each time) and the y remains
     // constant here because getHeight() and l.getHeight() both
     // are constant
     l.setLocation(x++-l.getWidth()/2,getHeight()/2-l.getHeight()/2);
     
     // If x equals half of the width of the JFrame
     // i.e. reaches center, then stop the timer
     if(x==getWidth()/2) t.stop();
    }
   });
   
   // Set some initial delay, optional
   t.setInitialDelay(200);
   
   // Start the timer
   t.start();
   
   // Set size and show the frame
   setSize(500,500);
   setVisible(true);
   setLocationRelativeTo(null);
  }
  
  public static void main(String args[])
  {
   SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
    public void run()
    {
     new AnimateJLabel();
    }
   });
  }
 }

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