by Les Hughes (leslie.hughes@rubus.com)
This task creates a splash screen. The splash screen is displayed for the duration of the build and includes a handy progress bar as well. Use in conjunction with the sound task to provide interest whilst waiting for your builds to complete...
| Attribute | Description | Required | Default | 
| imageurl | A URL pointing to an image to display. | No | antlogo.gif from the classpath | 
| showduration | Initial period to pause the build to show the splash in milliseconds. | No | 5000 ms | 
| progressregexp | Progress regular expression which is used to
      parse the output and dig out current progress. Exactly one group
      pattern must exists, and it represents the progress number (0-100)
      (i.e "Progress: (.*)%") since Apache Ant 1.8.0 | No | progress is increased every action and log output line | 
| displaytext | display text presented in the splash window since Ant 1.8.0 | No | Building ... | 
<setproxy> task, that makes it clear to readers of
the build exactly what is going on.
| useproxy | Use a proxy to access imgurl. Note: Only tested on JDK 1.2.2 and above | No | None | 
| proxy | IP or hostname of the proxy server | No | None | 
| port | Proxy portnumber | No | None | 
| user | User to authenticate to the proxy as. | No | None | 
| password | Proxy password | No | None | 
<splash/>
Splash images/ant_logo_large.gif from the classpath.
<splash imageurl="http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo.gif"
           useproxy="true"
           showduration="5000"/>
Splashes the jakarta logo, for an initial period of 5 seconds.
Splash with controlled progress and nondefault text
        <target name="test_new_features">
                <echo>New features</echo>
                <splash progressRegExp="Progress: (.*)%" showduration="0" displayText="Test text"/>
                <sleep seconds="1"/>
                <echo>Progress: 10%</echo>
                <sleep seconds="1"/>
                <echo>Progress: 20%</echo>
                <sleep seconds="1"/>
                <echo>Progress: 50%</echo>
                <sleep seconds="1"/>
                <echo>Progress: 70%</echo>
                <sleep seconds="1"/>
                <echo>Progress: 100%</echo>
                <sleep seconds="3"/>
        </target>