Animated Gifs in Swing

Question

Is it possible to draw an animated Gif in a swing gui? I know how I can display animated gifs in an applet, but I really would like to do it in a gui that does not use the class Applet.

Answer 1

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KarlStroetmann wrote:
Is it possible to draw an animated Gif in a swing gui? E.G.
import javax.swing.*;
import java.net.URL;
class ShowGif {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    final URL url = new URL(
      "http://pscode.org/media/starzoom-thumb.gif");
    Runnable r = new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon(url);
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, ii );
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(r);
KarlStroetmann wrote:.. I know how I can display animated gifs in an applet, but I really would like to do it in a gui that does not use the class Applet.A JApplet is Swing, and offers all the methods an Applet does. ;)
Edit 1:
Note that it is usually necessary to wrap an ImageIcon in a JLabel before display, but JOptionPane does that automatically.
Edited by: AndrewThompson64 on Jul 10, 2009 5:26 AM