Animated GIF in Forms 5/6

Hi
I need to play an animated GIF in my application.
I've tried it but it is showing the first frame of the A-Gif only.
Please help me in this regard asap.,
It is very much required...
Tnx in anticipation
RK Raju

Tnx,
Any ideas on simulating Progress Bar...in Forms 5.
I'm doing a resource oriented process in the backend and i want to show a progress bar sort of thing to user representing the back end process....
Any ideeeas....!!
Very important!!
RK Raju

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