VC# - How to draw a GIF animation on a picturebox control

[Shailesh Appukuttan]

I have a picturebox (imgViewer) which is displaying an image (a map). Now i want to display another image (a smaller one) on top of this image. But this smaller image is a GIF animation of a blinking siren. But when i paint it on the picturebox, the overlapping of the two images is being displayed properly, but it comes as a static image with only the first frame of the animation being shown. This is the code I am using: private void btn_Path_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Bitmap path = new Bitmap(@"C:\Engg\Siren.JPG"); Graphics graph = Graphics.FromImage( this.imgViewer.Image ); graph.DrawImage(path, 0, 0); graph.Dispose(); } (Thanks to CKnig for the code above) How can i make the GIF animation properly display as I want the blinking effect. Thanks in advance!!

[Christian Graus]

You can't. A picture box shows one image, and it's not animated.

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[Xmen Real]

here are solutions: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mgold/AnimationComponent09142005062332AM/AnimationComponent.aspx[^] http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=501614&SiteID=1[^]

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[electriac]

PictureBox can display animated GIF. I do this frequently.