Drawing moving GIF images?

Question

Is it possible to draw moving gif images on a simple Frame applet?
I made an image drawer class for my applet and i can draw simple 2d images.
Here is the basis of my GameSprite class;
    public byte[] pixels;
    public int width;
    public int height;
    public GameSprite(String imageName, int requestIndex) {
     try {
                // Removed code, it's zipInputStream, but it can be used just as ./image.jpg etc
     javax.swing.ImageIcon icon = new javax.swing.ImageIcon(fileBytes);
     width = icon.getIconWidth();
                 height = icon.getIconHeight();
                 pixels = fileBytes;
     } catch(Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
    public void drawSprite(int x, int y) {
     try {
          Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(pixels);
                                //Removed code here
          graphics.drawImage(image, x, y + 7, width, height, observer);
     } catch(Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
    }If i try to draw an animated gif image it dosn't move.
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

In Java you need to override the paint method in AWT and paintComponenet method in SWING to do graphics/animation. If you go to an offscreen rendering, then you can paint to the graphics context of an image you use for a drawImage in your paint/paintComponent...
If you where overriding a Panel in AWT you would override paint:
public void paint(Graphics g){
  g.drawImage(im, 0, 0, this);
}Then where you are maipulating your graphics you would do something like this:
//code snippet
Graphics g = im.getGraphics();
//make what ever changes to im by manipulating the graphics context g
repaint();