java - how to load animated gif to jpanel from mac -

i want load animated gif jpanel read how when run program

i message:

java.net.malformedurlexception: no protocol: /users/me/documents/workspace/managetimeclock/images/timeanim.gif 

i checked gif path , correct!!

so should 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 thank anyway :)

solved 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);