how to load animated gif to jpanel from mac

Question

I want to load animated gif to jpanel so I read how to do it but when I run the program

i get this message:

java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: /Users/me/Documents/workspace/ManageTimeClock/Images/timeanim.gif

I checked my gif path and its correct!!

So what should i do?

my code:

URL url;
            try {
                url = new URL("/Users/me/Documents/workspace/ManageTimeClock/Images/timeanim.gif");
                Icon imgGif = new ImageIcon(url);
                JLabel lblGif = new JLabel();
                lblGif.setIcon(imgGif);
                lblGif.setBounds(100, 100, 400, 450);
                switchPanel.add(lblGif);
            } catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }

i solved it thank to all anyway :)

Answer 1

solved it with:

String path = "/Users/me/Documents/workspace/ManageTimeClock/Images/timeanim.gif";

                Icon imgGif = new ImageIcon(path);
                JLabel lblGif = new JLabel();
                lblGif.setIcon(imgGif);
                lblGif.setBounds(150,150, 455, 170);
                switchPanel.add(lblGif);