java - Display BMP in JLabel

Question

Java can display png, jpg a some other picture formats, but i have to display a bmp file in a JLable by getting the file path.

ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon(imageFile.getAbsolutePath());

ImageIcon support the typical png,gif,jpg images.

In the project i am working, i can not open a bmp file and store the same file as a jpg, because i am not allow to store something at runtime. I could only generate the image in hold it in memory. But i dont know how to do this.

How can i show BMP in Java 1.4?

Thanks

Answer 1

javax.imageio.ImageIO supports the BMP format:

Image image = ImageIO.read(imageFile);
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(image);

JLabel label = new JLabel(icon);

ImageIO can also be used to convert between different formats.