Creating an Image Icon With a .bmp Image

Does anyone know how to create an ImageIcon object with a bitmp image file. For instance, with a gif image, I can create an Image Icon thus

URL url = getClass().getResource("any.gif");
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(url);

Now when I have a bitmap file called any.bmp I canot do the same as above. Why ??

Thanks

Melody

The ImageIcon class supports whatever the AWT Toolkit does. Which I think is only GIF, JPEG or PNG.

But here's something you might be interested in
http://www.esus.com/javaindex/j2se/j...p/javabmp.html

does your project prevents you from converting it into gif?

Thanks Goodz and Ishabin. As for your question regarding whether or not I can am constrained not to convert to a GIF the answer is NO. If there is a way of converting to GIF without losing picture quality then please advise.

Many thanks

Recent versions of Microsoft Paint will allow you to do this conversion.

Hey David is it necessary to convert the file into gif?? i mean is there any harm in continuing with a bitmap as i feel there are lot of code available that read a bitmap into a java program.
just give a thought

Thx

You can...I'd just take the path of least resistance...(convert them to GIFs).

yaa thatz also true but i was talking in terms of limitations set by client that he want a bitmap only etc.anyway ur thought is very well accepted
Thx