JFileChooser animated gif preview

Question

I'm using an Accesory with an ImageIcon to preview images on a JFileChooser.
It works ok, but I would like to know how do I get those animated gif to restart their animation whenever I click some other file (so the image preview goes to null) and click back on them.
There are non-looped gifs and looped ones, it is specially for the non-looped gifs as to give a way to get to see the animation again. After clicking the file once the animation never plays again, even if a load another preview by clicking another file and then go back...
Since there's no obvious method on ImageIcon or Image I tried flush since it says it clears the data but the only thing I got was the gif animating improperly (it would get trash/noise).
* JFileChooserImagePreview.java
* Created on 16 de junio de 2005, 12:58 AM
package ptcg.win.util;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.beans.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.File;
/* from FileChooserDemo2.java. */
public class JFileChooserImagePreview extends javax.swing.JComponent implements PropertyChangeListener {
     public JFileChooserImagePreview(JFileChooser fc) {
          setHeight = -1;
          setWidth = -1;
          setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 50));
          fc.addPropertyChangeListener(this);
     public JFileChooserImagePreview(JFileChooser fc, int setHeight, int setWidth) {
          this.setHeight = setHeight;
          this.setWidth = setWidth;
          setPreferredSize(new Dimension(setHeight, setWidth));
          fc.addPropertyChangeListener(this);
     public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent e) {
          boolean update = false;
          String prop = e.getPropertyName();
          //If the directory changed, don't show an image.
          if(JFileChooser.DIRECTORY_CHANGED_PROPERTY.equals(prop)) {
               file = null;
               update = true;
          } else if (JFileChooser.SELECTED_FILE_CHANGED_PROPERTY.equals(prop)) {
               file = (File) e.getNewValue();
               update = true;
          //Update the preview accordingly.
          if (update) {
               thumbnail = null;
               if(isShowing()) {
                    loadImage();
                    repaint();
     public void loadImage() {
          if (file == null) {
               thumbnail = null;
               return;
          ImageIcon tmpIcon = new ImageIcon(file.getPath());
          if (tmpIcon != null) {
               Image i = tmpIcon.getImage();
               //i.flush(); //screws the animation
               thumbnail = new ImageIcon(i.getScaledInstance(setHeight, setWidth, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH));
     protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
          if (thumbnail == null) {
               loadImage();
          if (thumbnail != null) {
               int x = getWidth()/2 - thumbnail.getIconWidth()/2;
               int y = getHeight()/2 - thumbnail.getIconHeight()/2;
               if (y < 0) {
                    y = 0;
               if (x < 5) {
                    x = 5;
               thumbnail.paintIcon(this, g, x, y);
     ImageIcon thumbnail = null;
     File file = null;
     int setHeight, setWidth;
}Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Never-mind. I have it working properly now.