in a hypathedical sense, if this version of the XL did animate the icons, then i would look towards animating them, however this version of the XL did not. also it works out to an advantage anyway because asking the emulator to animate them may be pushing my luck, HOWEVER its not impossible! i have had a good track record to this point of achiving what was necessary to make the emulator as realistic as possible. i may venture into animating them one day, the only problem is with that, theres no source to the animated icons.. i only have static .png images of the icons.