Toolkit.createCustomCursor(...) blocks when provided with an animated GIF

Hi everyone:
Here is a code snippet from an application of mine:
// Loading an image: works fine. duke.gif is an animated Duke icon found in the source code version of J2SDK 1.3.1.
ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon("duke.gif");
// Conversion into an image: works fine too. I checked its proper termination with a MediaTracker, which I removed after determining that getImage() does not block at all.
Image image = imageIcon.getImage();
// This method blocks forever!
Cursor myCursor = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit.createCustomCursor(image, new Point(0, 0), "Duke");After testing with a few other GIF images, I could determine that this blocking problem seems to occur only with animated GIF images. Are animated GIFs supported as cursor images at all? Also, what is the best method to use the Toolkit.getBestCursorSize(...) to properly size the loaded image for use as a cursor icon?
Thanks in advance for helping...
Jean-Fran�ois Morin

I think the problem may be that your using an animated gif. If you read the doc on the Curson class it says that Cursor is a bitmap representation of the mouse cursor. Bitmaps do not generally support animation. Also it is likely the createCustomCursor method is waiting for a call to ImageConsumer.imageComplete(). I am not sure, but if the GIF animation loops this function may never get called. This could cause your hangup. I would suggest trying a non-animated GIFf produced from the same program to ensure that your paint program is producing compliant GIFs. If that works I would assume the problem is that Cursor does not support animation at this time. I could be wrong about that, but there is nothing in the documentation to indate that it would.
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