… using a pushbutton

@Greg – I assume that you are aware of the fact that the compiled binary is simply a self-extracting exe that anyone can open using winzip and see the internal image resources (although not the code – those files are encrypted).

Sorry – maybe my vernacular was not correct. What I did not want was for the GIF file to be seen by the end user. They would only see the .exe, that way the GIF will always work whether or not they move the .exe between folders and they wouldn’t be able to change the location/delete the GIF either.

When I use the deploytool as described with the code above, the end result is a just a single .exe file that can be moved and distributed yet still has a functioning GIF. The end user will only see the .exe which was my goal.

@Greg – you said you didn’t want the image to appear in the deployment folder, but that’s exactly what you did above…

Unfortunately one of the reasons for distributing is when people are not connected to the inter/intranet they can still run the programs without needing a matlab license.

However, I appear to have found a workaround. The below code is in my .m file and the file “Pic_For_Error.gif” is included in the Shared Resources and Helper Files section of deploytool (the same section that the .fig file is included). Hope this helps anyone that may want to distribute their GUIs with GIFs!

fname = 'Pic_For_Error.gif';
hFig = figure('Color','w');
jLabel = javaObjectEDT('javax.swing.JLabel',javaObjectEDT('javax.swing.ImageIcon',which(fname)));
[hJ,hC] = javacomponent(jLabel,getpixelposition(hFig).*[0 0 1 1],hFig);

@Grep – you could place the GIF on some website (either your own or some public image-sharing site) and let the HTML img src point to the relevant URL rather than to local disk file. Of course, the user would need to have internet connection to that URL in order to see the GIF.

Thanks again.

@Lalitkumar – if you insist on using an axes (why???), then you could use a timer to refresh the displayed image frame at a certain frequency.