Animated GIF leads to SplashScreen being null
I know this is probably close to a duplicate of this thread: Animated GIF in Splashscreen But since it seems unanswered and I can't comment on it or anything I'm sorry to repost this but it would be awesome if someone could give me an answer. I am making a game and this game takes quite a lot of time to start. Therefore I want to give the user feedback during the loading screen so he knows the application hasn't crashed. That's why I use the SplashScreen API from java 7. In eclipse, when I run my application using the following configuration in VM Arguments, SplashScreen.getSplashScreen()