title: Animated Gifs in Flex 3
body: <p>Believe it or not I need a way of displaying animated gifs in Flex 3. This guy has a component for sale but it's Flex 2 only: <a href="http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/01/19/how-to-load-animated-gifs-using-adobe-flex-20/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/01/19/how-to-load-animated-gifs-using-adobe-flex-20/</a>.</p>
  
  <p>And I’ve implemented this example: <a href="http://www.bytearray.org/?p=95" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.bytearray.org/?p=95</a>, but for larger gifs it’s very CPU intensive and causes the UI to hang.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know of any alternative solutions? Failing that, I may have to look at re-factoring the second example to use pseudo-threading. Eugh.</p>