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<h1 class="page">loading_screen</h1>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="nifty-loading-screen-progress-bar"><a class="anchor" href="#nifty-loading-screen-progress-bar"></a>Nifty Loading Screen (Progress Bar)</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This example will use the existing hello terrain as an example.
It will require these 2 images inside Assets/Interface/ (save them as border.png and inner.png respectively).</p>
</div>
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<p><span class="image"><img src="../../_images/jme3/advanced/inner1.png" alt="inner1.png" width="" height=""></span></p>
</div>
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<p><span class="image"><img src="../../_images/jme3/advanced/border1.png" alt="border1.png" width="" height=""></span></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You need to add the jme3-niftygui and <a href="../../sdk/sample_code.html#jme3testdata-assets#" class="page">jme3-test-data</a> libraries.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You will need to set your projects source to JDK 8.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is the progress bar at 90%:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><span class="image"><img src="../../_images/jme3/advanced/loadingscreen.png" alt="loadingscreen.png" width="" height=""></span></p>
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<p>nifty_loading.xml</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-xml hljs" data-lang="xml">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;nifty&gt;
    &lt;useStyles filename="nifty-default-styles.xml" /&gt;
    &lt;useControls filename="nifty-default-controls.xml" /&gt;

    &lt;controlDefinition name = "loadingbar" controller = "jme3test.TestLoadingScreen"&gt;
        &lt;image filename="Interface/border.png" childLayout="absolute"
               imageMode="resize:15,2,15,15,15,2,15,2,15,2,15,15"&gt;
            &lt;image id="progressbar" x="0" y="0" filename="Interface/inner.png" width="32px"
              height="100%" imageMode="resize:15,2,15,15,15,2,15,2,15,2,15,15" /&gt;
        &lt;/image&gt;
    &lt;/controlDefinition&gt;

    &lt;screen id="start" controller = "jme3test.TestLoadingScreen"&gt;
        &lt;layer id="layer" childLayout="center"&gt;
            &lt;panel id = "panel2" height="30%" width="50%" align="center" valign="center"
              childLayout="vertical" visibleToMouse="true"&gt;
                &lt;control id="startGame" name="button" backgroundColor="#0000" label="Load Game"
                  align="center"&gt;
                    &lt;interact onClick="showLoadingMenu()" /&gt;
                &lt;/control&gt;
            &lt;/panel&gt;
        &lt;/layer&gt;
    &lt;/screen&gt;

    &lt;screen id="loadlevel" controller = "jme3test.TestLoadingScreen"&gt;
        &lt;layer id="loadinglayer" childLayout="center" backgroundColor="#000000"&gt;
            &lt;panel id = "loadingpanel" childLayout="vertical" align="center" valign="center"
              height="32px" width="70%"&gt;
                &lt;control name="loadingbar" align="center" valign="center" width="100%"
                  height="100%" /&gt;
                &lt;control id="loadingtext" name="label" align="center"
                         text="                                                  "/&gt;
            &lt;/panel&gt;
        &lt;/layer&gt;
    &lt;/screen&gt;

    &lt;screen id="end" controller = "jme3test.TestLoadingScreen"&gt;
    &lt;/screen&gt;

&lt;/nifty&gt;</code></pre>
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<h3 id="understanding-nifty-xml"><a class="anchor" href="#understanding-nifty-xml"></a>Understanding Nifty XML</h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The progress bar and text is done statically using nifty XML.
A custom control is created, which represents the progress bar.</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-xml hljs" data-lang="xml">&lt;controlDefinition name = "loadingbar" controller = "jme3test.TestLoadingScreen"&gt;
    &lt;image filename="Interface/border.png" childLayout="absolute"
           imageMode="resize:15,2,15,15,15,2,15,2,15,2,15,15"&gt;
        &lt;image id="progressbar" x="0" y="0" filename="Interface/inner.png" width="32px"
          height="100%" imageMode="resize:15,2,15,15,15,2,15,2,15,2,15,15"/&gt;
    &lt;/image&gt;
&lt;/controlDefinition&gt;</code></pre>
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</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This screen simply displays a button in the middle of the screen, which could be seen as a simple main menu UI.</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-xml hljs" data-lang="xml">&lt;screen id="start" controller = "jme3test.TestLoadingScreen"&gt;
    &lt;layer id="layer" childLayout="center"&gt;
        &lt;panel id = "panel2" height="30%" width="50%" align="center" valign="center"
          childLayout="vertical" visibleToMouse="true"&gt;
            &lt;control id="startGame" name="button" backgroundColor="#0000" label="Load Game"
              align="center"&gt; &lt;interact onClick="showLoadingMenu()" /&gt;
            &lt;/control&gt;
        &lt;/panel&gt;
    &lt;/layer&gt;
&lt;/screen&gt;</code></pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This screen displays our custom progress bar control with a text control.</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-xml hljs" data-lang="xml">&lt;screen id="loadlevel" controller = "jme3test.TestLoadingScreen"&gt;
    &lt;layer id="loadinglayer" childLayout="center" backgroundColor="#000000"&gt;
        &lt;panel id = "loadingpanel" childLayout="vertical" align="center" valign="center"
          height="32px" width="400px"&gt;
            &lt;control name="loadingbar" align="center" valign="center" width="400px"
              height="32px" /&gt;
            &lt;control id="loadingtext" name="label" align="center"
                      text="                                                  "/&gt;
        &lt;/panel&gt;
    &lt;/layer&gt;
&lt;/screen&gt;</code></pre>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="creating-the-bindings-to-use-the-nifty-xml"><a class="anchor" href="#creating-the-bindings-to-use-the-nifty-xml"></a>Creating the bindings to use the Nifty XML</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are 3 main ways to update a progress bar. To understand why these methods are necessary, an understanding of the graphics pipeline is needed.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Something like this in a single thread will not work:</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-java hljs" data-lang="java">load_scene();
update_bar(30%);
load_characters();
update_bar(60%);
load_sounds();
update_bar(100%);</code></pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you do all of this in a single frame, then it is sent to the graphics card only after the whole code block has executed. By this time the bar has reached 100% and the game has already begun – for the user, the progressbar on the screen would not have visibly changed.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The 2 main good solutions are:</p>
</div>
<div class="olist arabic">
<ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>Updating explicitly over many frames</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Multi-threading</p>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="updating-progress-bar-over-a-number-of-frames"><a class="anchor" href="#updating-progress-bar-over-a-number-of-frames"></a>Updating progress bar over a number of frames</h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The idea is to break down the loading of the game into discrete parts.</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-java hljs" data-lang="java">package jme3test;

import com.jme3.app.SimpleApplication;
import com.jme3.material.Material;
import com.jme3.niftygui.NiftyJmeDisplay;
import static com.jme3.niftygui.NiftyJmeDisplay.newNiftyJmeDisplay;
import com.jme3.renderer.Camera;
import com.jme3.terrain.geomipmap.TerrainLodControl;
import com.jme3.terrain.geomipmap.TerrainQuad;
import com.jme3.terrain.heightmap.AbstractHeightMap;
import com.jme3.terrain.heightmap.ImageBasedHeightMap;
import com.jme3.texture.Texture;
import com.jme3.texture.Texture.WrapMode;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.controls.Controller;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.controls.Parameters;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.elements.Element;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.elements.render.TextRenderer;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.input.NiftyInputEvent;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.ScreenController;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.tools.SizeValue;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * This is the TestLoadingScreen Class of your Game. You should only do
 * initialization here. Move your Logic into AppStates or Controls
 *
 * @author normenhansen
 */
public class TestLoadingScreen extends SimpleApplication implements
        ScreenController, Controller {

    private NiftyJmeDisplay niftyDisplay;
    private Nifty nifty;
    private Element progressBarElement;
    private TerrainQuad terrain;
    private Material mat_terrain;
    private float frameCount = 0;
    private boolean load = false;
    private TextRenderer textRenderer;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        TestLoadingScreen app = new TestLoadingScreen();
        app.start();
    }

    @Override
    public void simpleInitApp() {
        flyCam.setEnabled(false);
        niftyDisplay = newNiftyJmeDisplay(assetManager,
                inputManager,
                audioRenderer,
                guiViewPort);
        nifty = niftyDisplay.getNifty();

        nifty.fromXml("Interface/nifty_loading.xml", "start", this);

        guiViewPort.addProcessor(niftyDisplay);
    }

    @Override
    public void simpleUpdate(float tpf) {

        if (load) { //loading is done over many frames
            if (frameCount == 1) {
                Element element = nifty.getScreen("loadlevel").findElementById(
                        "loadingtext");
                textRenderer = element.getRenderer(TextRenderer.class);

                mat_terrain = new Material(assetManager,
                        "Common/MatDefs/Terrain/Terrain.j3md");
                mat_terrain.setTexture("Alpha", assetManager.loadTexture(
                        "Textures/Terrain/splat/alphamap.png"));
                setProgress(0.2f, "Loading grass");

            } else if (frameCount == 2) {
                Texture grass = assetManager.loadTexture(
                        "Textures/Terrain/splat/grass.jpg");
                grass.setWrap(WrapMode.Repeat);
                mat_terrain.setTexture("Tex1", grass);
                mat_terrain.setFloat("Tex1Scale", 64f);
                setProgress(0.4f, "Loading dirt");

            } else if (frameCount == 3) {
                Texture dirt = assetManager.loadTexture(
                        "Textures/Terrain/splat/dirt.jpg");

                dirt.setWrap(WrapMode.Repeat);
                mat_terrain.setTexture("Tex2", dirt);
                mat_terrain.setFloat("Tex2Scale", 32f);
                setProgress(0.5f, "Loading rocks");

            } else if (frameCount == 4) {
                Texture rock = assetManager.loadTexture(
                        "Textures/Terrain/splat/road.jpg");

                rock.setWrap(WrapMode.Repeat);

                mat_terrain.setTexture("Tex3", rock);
                mat_terrain.setFloat("Tex3Scale", 128f);
                setProgress(0.6f, "Creating terrain");

            } else if (frameCount == 5) {
                AbstractHeightMap heightmap = null;
                Texture heightMapImage = assetManager.loadTexture(
                        "Textures/Terrain/splat/mountains512.png");
                heightmap = new ImageBasedHeightMap(heightMapImage.getImage());

                heightmap.load();
                terrain = new TerrainQuad("my terrain", 65, 513, heightmap.
                        getHeightMap());
                setProgress(0.8f, "Positioning terrain");

            } else if (frameCount == 6) {
                terrain.setMaterial(mat_terrain);

                terrain.setLocalTranslation(0, -100, 0);
                terrain.setLocalScale(2f, 1f, 2f);
                rootNode.attachChild(terrain);
                setProgress(0.9f, "Loading cameras");

            } else if (frameCount == 7) {
                List&lt;Camera&gt; cameras = new ArrayList&lt;&gt;();
                cameras.add(getCamera());
                TerrainLodControl control = new TerrainLodControl(terrain,
                        cameras);
                terrain.addControl(control);
                setProgress(1f, "Loading complete");

            } else if (frameCount == 8) {
                nifty.gotoScreen("end");
                nifty.exit();
                guiViewPort.removeProcessor(niftyDisplay);
                flyCam.setEnabled(true);
                flyCam.setMoveSpeed(50);
            }

            frameCount++;
        }
    }

    public void setProgress(final float progress, String loadingText) {
        final int MIN_WIDTH = 32;
        int pixelWidth = (int) (MIN_WIDTH + (progressBarElement.getParent().
                getWidth() - MIN_WIDTH) * progress);
        progressBarElement.setConstraintWidth(new SizeValue(pixelWidth + "px"));
        progressBarElement.getParent().layoutElements();

        textRenderer.setText(loadingText);
    }

    public void showLoadingMenu() {
        nifty.gotoScreen("loadlevel");
        load = true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onStartScreen() {
    }

    @Override
    public void onEndScreen() {
    }

    @Override
    public void bind(Nifty nifty, Screen screen) {
        progressBarElement = nifty.getScreen("loadlevel").findElementById(
                "progressbar");
    }

    // methods for Controller
    @Override
    public boolean inputEvent(final NiftyInputEvent inputEvent) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public void onFocus(boolean getFocus) {
    }

    @Override
    public void bind(Nifty nifty, Screen screen, Element elmnt,
            Parameters prmtrs) {
        progressBarElement = elmnt.findElementById("progressbar");
    }

    @Override
    public void init(Parameters prmtrs) {
    }

}</code></pre>
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Try and add all controls near the end, as their update loops may begin executing.
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<h3 id="using-multithreading"><a class="anchor" href="#using-multithreading"></a>Using multithreading</h3>
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<p>For more info on multithreading: <a href="multithreading.html" class="page">The jME3 Threading Model</a></p>
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<p>Make sure to change the XML file to point the controller to TestLoadingScreen*1*.</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-java hljs" data-lang="java">package jme3test;

import com.jme3.app.SimpleApplication;
import com.jme3.material.Material;
import com.jme3.niftygui.NiftyJmeDisplay;
import static com.jme3.niftygui.NiftyJmeDisplay.newNiftyJmeDisplay;
import com.jme3.renderer.Camera;
import com.jme3.terrain.geomipmap.TerrainLodControl;
import com.jme3.terrain.geomipmap.TerrainQuad;
import com.jme3.terrain.heightmap.AbstractHeightMap;
import com.jme3.terrain.heightmap.ImageBasedHeightMap;
import com.jme3.texture.Texture;
import com.jme3.texture.Texture.WrapMode;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.controls.Controller;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.controls.Parameters;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.elements.Element;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.elements.render.TextRenderer;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.input.NiftyInputEvent;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.ScreenController;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.tools.SizeValue;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class TestLoadingScreen1 extends SimpleApplication implements
        ScreenController, Controller {

    private NiftyJmeDisplay niftyDisplay;
    private Nifty nifty;
    private Element progressBarElement;
    private TerrainQuad terrain;
    private Material mat_terrain;
    private boolean load = false;
    private ScheduledExecutorService exec = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(2);
    private Future loadFuture = null;
    private TextRenderer textRenderer;
    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(TestLoadingScreen1.class.
            getName());

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        TestLoadingScreen1 app = new TestLoadingScreen1();
        app.start();
    }

    @Override
    public void simpleInitApp() {
        flyCam.setEnabled(false);
        niftyDisplay = newNiftyJmeDisplay(assetManager,
                inputManager,
                audioRenderer,
                guiViewPort);
        nifty = niftyDisplay.getNifty();

        nifty.fromXml("Interface/nifty_loading.xml", "start", this);

        guiViewPort.addProcessor(niftyDisplay);
    }

    @Override
    public void simpleUpdate(float tpf) {
        if (load) {
            if (loadFuture == null) {
                //if we have not started loading, submit Callable to executor
                loadFuture = exec.submit(loadingCallable);
            }
            //check if the execution on the other thread is done
            if (loadFuture.isDone()) {
                //these calls have to be done on the update loop thread,
                //especially attaching the terrain to the rootNode
                //after it is attached, it's managed by the update loop thread
                // and may not be modified from any other thread anymore!
                nifty.gotoScreen("end");
                nifty.exit();
                guiViewPort.removeProcessor(niftyDisplay);
                flyCam.setEnabled(true);
                flyCam.setMoveSpeed(50);
                rootNode.attachChild(terrain);
                load = false;
            }
        }
    }
    //This is the callable that contains the code that is run on the other
    //thread.
    //Since the assetmananger is threadsafe, it can be used to load data from
    //any thread.
    //We do *not* attach the objects to the rootNode here!
    Callable&lt;Void&gt; loadingCallable = new Callable&lt;Void&gt;() {

        @Override
        public Void call() {

            Element element = nifty.getScreen("loadlevel").findElementById(
                    "loadingtext");
            textRenderer = element.getRenderer(TextRenderer.class);

            mat_terrain = new Material(assetManager,
                    "Common/MatDefs/Terrain/Terrain.j3md");
            mat_terrain.setTexture("Alpha", assetManager.loadTexture(
                    "Textures/Terrain/splat/alphamap.png"));
            //setProgress is thread safe (see below)
            setProgress(0.2f, "Loading grass");

            Texture grass = assetManager.loadTexture(
                    "Textures/Terrain/splat/grass.jpg");
            grass.setWrap(WrapMode.Repeat);
            mat_terrain.setTexture("Tex1", grass);
            mat_terrain.setFloat("Tex1Scale", 64f);
            setProgress(0.4f, "Loading dirt");

            Texture dirt = assetManager.loadTexture(
                    "Textures/Terrain/splat/dirt.jpg");

            dirt.setWrap(WrapMode.Repeat);
            mat_terrain.setTexture("Tex2", dirt);
            mat_terrain.setFloat("Tex2Scale", 32f);
            setProgress(0.5f, "Loading rocks");

            Texture rock = assetManager.loadTexture(
                    "Textures/Terrain/splat/road.jpg");

            rock.setWrap(WrapMode.Repeat);

            mat_terrain.setTexture("Tex3", rock);
            mat_terrain.setFloat("Tex3Scale", 128f);
            setProgress(0.6f, "Creating terrain");

            AbstractHeightMap heightmap = null;
            Texture heightMapImage = assetManager.loadTexture(
                    "Textures/Terrain/splat/mountains512.png");
            heightmap = new ImageBasedHeightMap(heightMapImage.getImage());

            heightmap.load();
            terrain = new TerrainQuad("my terrain", 65, 513, heightmap.
                    getHeightMap());
            setProgress(0.8f, "Positioning terrain");

            terrain.setMaterial(mat_terrain);

            terrain.setLocalTranslation(0, -100, 0);
            terrain.setLocalScale(2f, 1f, 2f);
            setProgress(0.9f, "Loading cameras");

            List&lt;Camera&gt; cameras = new ArrayList&lt;&gt;();
            cameras.add(getCamera());
            TerrainLodControl control = new TerrainLodControl(terrain, cameras);
            terrain.addControl(control);
            setProgress(1f, "Loading complete");

            return null;
        }
    };

    public void setProgress(final float progress, final String loadingText) {
        //Since this method is called from another thread, we enqueue the
        //changes to the progressbar to the update loop thread.
        enqueue(() -&gt; {
            final int MIN_WIDTH = 32;
            int pixelWidth = (int) (MIN_WIDTH + (progressBarElement.getParent().
                    getWidth() - MIN_WIDTH) * progress);
            progressBarElement.setConstraintWidth(new SizeValue(pixelWidth
                    + "px"));
            progressBarElement.getParent().layoutElements();

            textRenderer.setText(loadingText);
            return null;
        });

    }

    public void showLoadingMenu() {
        nifty.gotoScreen("loadlevel");
        load = true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onStartScreen() {
    }

    @Override
    public void onEndScreen() {
    }

    @Override
    public void bind(Nifty nifty, Screen screen) {
        progressBarElement = nifty.getScreen("loadlevel").findElementById(
                "progressbar");
    }

    // methods for Controller
    @Override
    public boolean inputEvent(final NiftyInputEvent inputEvent) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public void onFocus(boolean getFocus) {
    }

    @Override
    public void destroy() {
        super.destroy();
        shutdownAndAwaitTermination(exec);
    }

    //standard shutdown process for executor
    private void shutdownAndAwaitTermination(ExecutorService pool) {
        pool.shutdown(); // Disable new tasks from being submitted
        try {
            // Wait a while for existing tasks to terminate
            if (!pool.awaitTermination(6, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
                pool.shutdownNow(); // Cancel currently executing tasks
                // Wait a while for tasks to respond to being cancelled
                if (!pool.awaitTermination(6, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
                    LOG.log(Level.SEVERE, "Pool did not terminate {0}", pool);
                }
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
            // (Re-)Cancel if current thread also interrupted
            pool.shutdownNow();
            // Preserve interrupt status
            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void bind(Nifty nifty, Screen screen, Element elmnt,
            Parameters prmtrs) {
        progressBarElement = elmnt.findElementById("progressbar");
    }

    @Override
    public void init(Parameters prmtrs) {
    }

}</code></pre>
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