In the application I'm developing I need to present the user with a splash screen. In that splash screen I used an animated spinning wheel gif image to let the user know that he/she has to wait. But when I insert the gif and run the application the splash screen displays but the gif only animates(spins) for about half seconds and then stops animating. But when I previewed the gif using Windows picture and fax viewer it keeps animating. How do I make it animate until the splash screen closes? please help