Animation with Animated GIF

[JavaBean]

I need to do an animation, I am using an Image object to load an animated GIF. Is there any way to run all the frames which this GIF contains using the Image Object?. I donýt want to extract each image from the gif and then copy them into a jpg format, and then have to make a loop to animate the set of JPG images... it is possible, only load the GIF, and with some java class, animate the gif?

[levent]

Animated GIFs are supported by Java. Try following code to test the functionality:

Code:

import java.awt.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.swing.*;
 
public class Anima {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {

        URL url = new URL("<URL to your Animated GIF>");
        Icon icon = new ImageIcon(url);
        JLabel label = new JLabel(icon);
 
        JFrame f = new JFrame("Animation");
        f.getContentPane().add(label);
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }
}