How can I insert a GIF background in matlab guide so that when the program is made to run in the background I can see that GIF is running as my background image.

How can I insert a GIF background in matlab guide so that when the program is made to run in the background I can see that GIF is running as my background image.

[DGM]

What exactly do you mean by the background image in a GUI? Are you trying to put an image in an axes beneath other objects? Are you trying to animate that image?

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/480525-how-put-a-gif-on-guide?s_tid=answers_rc1-3_p3_MLT

But "when the program is made to run in the background I can see that GIF is running" makes it sound like you want some sort of animated icon for a minimized window or something.

[Adam Danz]

If you are developing a GUI using GUIDE, you are strongly urged to abandon GUIDE and develop the GUI using AppDesigner. MathWorks has started to phase out the GUIDE platform and in the near future, GUIDE-based GUIs will still function but will no longer be editable or further developed.

Adding GIFs to components in AppDesigner is fairly straightforward. Here's a Community Highlight that demonstrates these capabilities in Matlab R2020a and later.