I have an animated gif that plays for about 3 seconds then stops (this is how i want it) after the gif has completed i want to be able to put some
java components onto of this picture. The problem I'm having is that the gif sometimes takes longer to load and my components appear to soon. At the moment I am using a seperate
thread to display the components and making it sleep for 3 seconds before showing them. As you can see this is not the most effective way. I am using media tracker to load the animated gif and am using java 1.1.8 with awt (can't use swing). As anyone got any other suggestions as to how to wait unitl the gif has completely finished before showing the components.
Thanks