Creating an Image Icon With a .bmp Image

[mpedzisai]

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