I knew I wasn't clear, that's why I edited my post to add the link but to no avail Your icons could be named whatever,(place them in MyDocs/.images/.queen_beecon_dir) what matters is the indexing. So you could have progress images like myimage0.png myimage1.png myimage2.png (no space between name & number).Then in the settings dialogue set image name myimage ("as is" without index & extension) and number of frames to 3 (because 0,1,2).Ask again if you run into any problem. I actually had thought of using custom animation for my own widget too but just couldn't find any good progress images so stuck with default & I am not good at designing (at all)