are now possible: GitHub - Mrugalla/GIFLoad: Loading GIFs as animation in a JUCE project
I’m aware you won’t add this to the JUCE libraries the way I wrote it, because I messed with your ImageFileFormat class a lot in an “unintended” way, namely enabling it to spit out multiple images rather than just one. But maybe you can take a look at this and just take it as an inspiration for a more “JUCEy” way of gif-animation-support 