Hi BeanzMaster and lucamar
As a Newbie I didn't explain my point very well. Now I have learnt a bit more about Lazarus, I guess I meant that TGIFViewer doesn't act like TImage. I have used TImage on my form, and this appears to load its image in actual code into main.lfm , as opposed to TGIFViewer that just keeps a reference to the image in the user file system (see snapshots attached).
This is not a problem to me, (and thanks for the suggestions), it is just different.
Cheers Rusty