Create a moving JFrame in Swing

How to move a JFrame?

Now, let's create a JFrame that moves along the screen acting like a screensaver. All we need to do is to make a moving effect, for this we can either use the javax.swing.Timer class or Threading concept . However we use threading here. Just look at it!

Get ready to move!

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.*;
class AnimatedJFrame extends JFrame implements Runnable
{
Thread t;
public AnimatedJFrame()
{

// Set frame properties
setTitle("Animated JFrame");
setSize(500,500);
setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setUndecorated(true);

// Set some shape, i want a circle
setShape(new Ellipse2D.Double(0,0,500,500));

// Set background for the frame's content pane
getContentPane().setBackground(Color.white);

// Set opacity, don't make it opaque, that's my wish!
setOpacity(0.5f);

setVisible(true);

// Create a new thread, run() is written in this class (Runnable implemented)
t=new Thread(this);

// Start the thread
t.start();
}

public void run()
{
try
{

// Get the width of the screen, so that the frame has to go till end!
int width=Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize().width;

// Start the loop
for(int i=0;i<=width;i++)
{

// If i value equals width (i.e. reaches end of screen), start from starting of the screen (i.e. i=0) so looped forever
if(i==width) i=0;

// Set location, x-coordinate changes but y-coordinate is constant
setLocation(i,55);

// Get the effect!
Thread.sleep(1);

}

}catch(Exception e){}

}

public static void main(String args[])
{
new AnimatedJFrame();
}

}

Everything explained there, just go through other swing hacks.

Watch it! The example in real!