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POsetting button background / image to animated gif
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    copied!<p>I have a .gif file which i wish to use as the background image for a button. The main reason i want to do this (as i know some of you will wonder why i want to do it this way) is because, a button relates to an instance of a class, and i want to monitor these classes. when a class (and therefore button) goes into an "alarmed" state, i wish i use these animated gif. i've tried;</p> <pre><code>mainUI.Controls["btn" + device.deviceButtonNumber].BackgroundImage = (System.Drawing.Image)Properties.Resources.red_orange; </code></pre> <p>But it is to my understanding that .BackgroundImage does not support animated gifs. i've tried a few suggestions throughout stackoverflow and non of these seem to work for me, such as setting BackgroundImageLayout to center and such.</p> <p>I suppose as a last resort i could get it to cycle through the images manually as if it were a gif, but this would create more work and i'd like to keep things simple. Any suggestions?</p> <p>edit: sorry, forgot to add, this is in Winforms.</p> <p>edit 2:</p> <p>for example. when i create my buttons dynamically, like so;</p> <pre><code> Button btnAdd = new Button(); btnAdd.Text = mDevices[i].deviceDescription; btnAdd.Location = new Point(mDevices[i].deviceXPos.Value, mDevices[i].deviceYPos.Value); </code></pre> <p>I can still access:</p> <pre><code> btnAdd.Image &lt;- note i can access image. </code></pre> <p>then when i come to modify them later from another thread, i find them like so;</p> <pre><code> mainUI.Controls["btn" + device.deviceButtonNumber].text = blah blah mainUI.Controls["btn" + device.deviceButtonNumber].Location = blah blah </code></pre> <p>however i CANNOT access;</p> <pre><code> mainUI.Controls["btn" + device.deviceButtonNumber].Image </code></pre>
 

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