Use animated GIF in desktop application

Question

I was just wondering how to use animated GIFs in my program (right now I'm just using PNGs). I just want to be able to cycle through the different pictures in the GIFs, but I don't know the classes to use.

What classes are used to load and display animated GIFs?

Answer 1

new JLabel( new ImageIcon( URL ) );

E.G.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.net.URL;

class ShowAnimatedGif {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        final URL url = new URL("http://pscode.org/media/starzoom-thumb.gif");
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                JLabel l = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(url));
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, l);
            }
        });
    }
}