Animated gif on createCustomCursor

Question

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.

Answer 1

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() {
    list[0] = tk.createCustomCursor(tk.createImage(url00), p, "00");
    list[1] = tk.createCustomCursor(tk.createImage(url01), p, "01");
    list[2] = tk.createCustomCursor(tk.createImage(url02), p, "02");
    animator = new javax.swing.Timer(100, new ActionListener() {
      private int counter = 0;
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        button.setCursor(list[counter]);
        counter = (counter<list.length-1)?counter+1:0;
    button = new JButton(new AbstractAction("Start") {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        JButton b = (JButton)e.getSource();
        if(animator.isRunning()) {
          b.setText("Start");
          animator.stop();
        }else{
          b.setText("Stop");
          animator.start();
    button.setCursor(list[0]);
    JPanel p = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
    p.add(button);
    p.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(5,5,5,5));
    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);
    frame.setVisible(true);
}