Stepping an animated gif, one frame at a time?

Does anyone know how to do this?
I want my own timer to tell it when to paint the next frame.
What I really want is an "asynchronous progress indicator", in other words, an icon that animates as long as stuff is still making progress.

Does anyone know how to do this?
I want my own timer to tell it when to paint the next
frame.
What I really want is an "asynchronous progress
indicator", in other words, an icon that animates as
long as stuff is still making progress.You can easily manipulate animated GIF images with Gif4J PRO for Java (http://www.gif4j.com/java-gif-imaging-gif4j-pro-library.htm)
For example you can decode GIFs using Java Decoder (http://www.gif4j.com/java-gif4j-pro-gif-image-load-decode.htm) and then modify delays between frames or even extract frames and animate them manually.

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