Animated gifs on jlabel

hi
i am new to java and got a question.
how do i place a animated gif on a jlabel correct?
i done it so far with 'seticon' and the gif is visible, but not animated.
what do i have to do?

Use setImageObserver()
ImageIcon myicon = new ImageIcon (...);
JLabel mylabel = new JLabel (myicon);
myicon.setImageObserver (mylabel);
Okay, thank you very much.
Now, the Image is animated after i maximize and reset my application.

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Animated gif is working fine for me.
You can check the delay time between the images in the gif, to see that it's not too short.
Here's a simple example:import java.net.URL;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import com.sun.imageio.plugins.gif.GIFImageMetadata;
import com.sun.imageio.plugins.gif.GIFImageReader;
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    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            JFrame frame = new JFrame();
            frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JDialog.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
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I've got some problems with displaying animated picture when I
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I need your help, thank. If I type some impolite grammer, please forgive me. My English is poor. Thanks

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import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
public class FrameBackImage {
          public static void main(String args []){
               final JFrame frame = new JFrame("Frame");
               frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
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               frame.setLayout(null);
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               ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon(imageURL);
             final JLabel label = new JLabel(imageIcon);
             label.setBounds(0,0 , 400, 400);
             frame.getLayeredPane().add(label);
             JButton button = new JButton ("Exit");
             button.setBounds(200, 129, 60, 60);
             button.setBackground(Color.black);
             button.setForeground(Color.white);
             frame.add(button);
             button.addActionListener(
             new ActionListener(){
                    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
                         System.exit(0);
             frame.validate();
              frame.setVisible(true);
}

In the future, Swing related questions should be posted in the Swing forum.
Your usage of the getLayeredPane() method is something I've never seen before, so I don't know if thats the problem or not.
How to display a "background image" is asked all the time in the Swing forum. So to familiarize yourself with the forum you can try searching the Swing forum. Using the keywords I highlighted would be a good place to start.

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Hello All,
I am trying to show an animated gif on one of my custom cursors using :
Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
try{
myFrame.setCursor(
tk.createCustomCursor(ImageIO.read(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("test.gif")),new Point(15,15),"MyCursor" ) );
catch(Exception e){}But i always see a static image for that gif.
And when i try to use the same Image to show it on a JLabel something like this :
ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon(this.getClass().getResource("test.gif"));
JLabel label3 = new JLabel(ii);I see the animated image here.
Can someone help in showing the animated gif on the customcursor.
I have tried using the below discussion for reference but it didnt help for animated images.
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=267944
Thanks for your time.

Hello,
But i always see a static image for that gif.[http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Toolkit.html#createCustomCursor(java.awt.Image,%20java.awt.Point,%20java.lang.String)]
Note that multi-frame images are invalid and may cause this method to hang.--------
Here is another approach:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.swing.*;
class AnimatedCursorTest {
private javax.swing.Timer animator;
private JButton button;
private Toolkit tk    = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
private Cursor[] list = new Cursor[3];
private URL url00 = getClass().getResource("32x32_00.png");
private URL url01 = getClass().getResource("32x32_01.png");
private URL url02 = getClass().getResource("32x32_02.png");
private Point p   = new Point(0,0);
public JComponent makeUI() {
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    list[1] = tk.createCustomCursor(tk.createImage(url01), p, "01");
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    animator = new javax.swing.Timer(100, new ActionListener() {
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        counter = (counter<list.length-1)?counter+1:0;
    button = new JButton(new AbstractAction("Start") {
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    p.add(button);
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    return p;
public static void main(String[] args) {
    EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() { createAndShowGUI(); }
public static void createAndShowGUI() {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.getContentPane().add(new AnimatedCursorTest().makeUI());
    frame.setSize(320,240);
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
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}

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I want to place an animated gif into an application. I want it to start of not animated then I click a button and it starts. I click another button and the animation stops? Where do I start?
I have placed the gif into a JLabel and it starts animating.
Thats all I know how to do
Help!

Ok, So far I have one image, animated gif. There are 2 copys of that with different names in my dir. Search1.gif and Search2.gif. I place search1 into a custome JPanel that just paints the image, no animation, second inmage in a JLabel, show animation. I start with the no animation image showing, ok, click a button and image dissappears, ok, add animation image, not ok. My custom image panel with gif is in a JPanel, the JLabel will also be added to the same JPanel
searchPane.remove(image1);
searchPane.repaint();
searchPane.add(image2);
...code here...
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