Display animated gif on jPanel

Question

In the overridden function for my JFrame:

@Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {

    BufferedImage imagePerson;
    try {
        imagePerson = ImageIO.read(new File("errol.gif"));
    } catch (IOException e) {
        imagePerson = null;
    }

    g.drawImage(imagePerson, i * increment, j * increment - 1, null);
}

How can I change this so the animation on the gif is shown (without using threading). I have spent many hours trying to get this to work but to no avail.

Answer 1

You could use an ImageIcon for this purpose. Have a look here and here. If you need the animation on a JPanel, simply add a JLabel (with the ImageIcon) to the panel.