like in my initial post, I am modified the Helicopter sample code that comes with nokia development suite. I just removed the lines that would draw the background. That leaves me with the helicopter itself then i changed the image that was called and just increased the number of frames.

Here is the whole robot class.

import javax.microedition.lcdui.*;
import java.io.*;


public class Robot
{
 private static Image[] myImage;
 private static int x, y;
 private static int frame=4;

 private static int imageWidth, imageHeight;

 private final String CHARACTER_NAME="proto01";
 private final String imgFiller="/filler.png";
 private Image imgFill;
 private Image[] imgCharacterStrip;
 private final int CHARACTER_FRAMES=14;
 private Image[] imgCharacter=new Image[CHARACTER_FRAMES];
 private int clipAreas[][];

 public Robot()
 {
   // load the images from the .jar
   imgCharacterStrip=getImages(CHARACTER_NAME,1);
   try {
     imgFill = Image.createImage(imgFiller);
   }
   catch (IOException ex) {
   }
   // all character frame images are assumed
   // to be the same height and width
   imageWidth=imgCharacterStrip[0].getWidth()/CHARACTER_FRAMES;
   imageHeight=imgCharacterStrip[0].getHeight();

   // set the intial position of the character.

   x=(Try1Canvas.getCanvasWidth()/2)-(imageWidth/2);
   y=(Try1Canvas.getCanvasHeight()/2)-(imageHeight/2);

 }

 public void setFrame()
 {
   if(++frame>=CHARACTER_FRAMES)
   {
     frame=7;
   }
 }

 public void draw(Graphics g)
 {
   if(imgCharacterStrip[0]!=null)
   {
     g.setClip(x,y,imageWidth,imageHeight);
     //g.drawImage(imgFill,0,y,g.LEFT |g.TOP );
     g.drawImage(imgCharacterStrip[0],x-(imageWidth*frame),y,g.LEFT | g.TOP);
     //g.setClip(0,0,32,47);
     g.setClip(0,0,Try1Canvas.getCanvasWidth(),Try1Canvas.getCanvasHeight());
     
   }
 }
 public void draw2(Graphics g){
   g.setClip(0,0,Try1Canvas.getCanvasWidth(),Try1Canvas.getCanvasHeight());
   g.drawImage(imgFill,0,y,g.LEFT |g.TOP );
 }
 private Image[] getImages(String imgName, int frames)
 {
   return Try1.getImages(imgName, frames);
 }
}

hope you can help a newbie ...

The images are of the sames size, the difference is that my image is a robot.

yah, your right its not a question, i'll just edit it...thanks

I'm tried to animate a PNG image using sample code that comes with the Nokia Development Suite(Helicopter). The PNG image I used consists of 7 frames of different actions the image will do. I understand the idea of the sample code to animate an image, I used my PNG image on it. It did animate but the problem is the animation is not what i expected, the frames seems to overlap each other. Can anyone suggest another sample code for animation and can you direct me to a resource about threading in J2ME? I also want to create a custom UI for a game I'm trying to do.