No it doesn't speak, I lied. That is impossible. It's about setting animated GIF (and every other type of images) to a GUI control. How is this done for animated GIF? Few simple steps: - created ImageList of GIF Bitmaps retrieved from gif file/resource - created Pic control - every now and then another image is displayed. This is determined by frame delay time - see gif specification somewhere. That's it. All that takes time and could potentially block our gui/script. That's why flying assemb