Using animated GIF as JButton icon

Hi,
I am trying to use an animated gif as an icon in a JButton.
Everything works as it should except the animation is static!!
Screenshots and code are at:
http://www.beammicrosystems.com/Java/JButton.html
Anyone got any good ideas?
Regards,
Andrew

well i think you can do this in a label you can watch for a animation like you want a gif so my idea is that you should just make the label as a button and them :
JLabel label = new JLabel();
label.setIcon = new ImageIcon("name.gif");
and put it the setBounds
label.setBounds(x,y,long,tall);
and if you want that looks like a button just do this
label.setBorder(BorderFactory.createRaisedBevelBorder());
thats all.

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This is where you're wrong. Dipshits like you post **** like this all the time when it's readily available information that can be searched for WITHOUT >hosing up our forums.Great, give me a link, or even a search term to use on google or these forums. Before you give me search terms, you might want to actually check and make sure the answer is somewhere there...are you out of your freakin mind?!?!?!
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This is a "New to Java" subforum, if you can't handle helping people in a pleasant manner, that shows you respect the other person, what do you think people will think of you and java. If I spent more time on forums like this, and was looking at which language to try, I doubt I would pick java.I don't care what you think of me OR Java. I'm tired of noobs wasting forum resources with this crap. Once I was new to everything, but I went to the library and when the internet came along i learned how to search it!
Critical thinking people. Don't we teach this in schools any more?!
When it becomes an Internet joke (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/plz-email-me-teh-codez.aspx) about how bad the sun forums are, well, you really need to reconsider what you want to do with your life.
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