BufferedImage and animated gifs

Java 2D
#1

I swore there used to be a method that allowed a person to go through each frame of an image.

I was looking for it for at least an hour and I still can’t find it, there isn’t anything in the Javadoc about it either.

Maybe I was just hallucinating about it before?

Even so, is there an image class that handles frames within an image?
I can’t find anything on this, people tend to load animated images by saving a copy of each frame and then hardcoding the file names. :lol:

Personally I find that a very silly and time consuming thing to do.
Thanks.

#2

Usually people use sprite sheets. Those are single images which contain all frames next to each other.

Eg you can put 64 frames of a 32x32px sprite into a 512x512px image.

#3

[quote]Usually people use sprite sheets. Those are single images which contain all frames next to each other.

Eg you can put 64 frames of a 32x32px sprite into a 512x512px image.
[/quote]
Good idea, thanks for that.

#4

javax.imageio.ImageReader handles image files containing multiple frames.