Problem with animated gif image getting displayed

My problem is that my animated image does not get displayed properly. I am extending JButton and the button already contains a static image. I want to display the animated image over the static one for some reason. If I replace the animated image with a static gif, then there is no problem.
Here is the code that I am using
Icon anim = new ImageIcon((new ImageLoader()).getImage("/graphics/busy.gif"));
// thread to call displayAnim method
class ColorThread extends Thread {
ColorThread() {
public void run() {
while (AnimFlag) {
try {
displayAnim();
Thread.sleep(400);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
public void displayAnim()
repaint();
public void paint(Graphics g)
super.paint(g);
int x=5;
int y=0;
if ( AnimFlag) {
anim.paintIcon(this,g,x,y);

This code is working fine for JRE 1.2 and the animation is displayed. The problem is with JRE 1.3. when there is no animation, neither is there any image getting displayed.

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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.
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think ive solved it

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