Problem with JFileChooser and ImageIcon

Question

I'm trying to create an ImageIcon object from file selected in JFileChooser. The problem is that jfc.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath() returns a string with backslashes and the constructor of ImageIcon requires the string to have slashes. I`ve tried to create it via URL but it doesn't work as well...
String lastUsedPath;
URL imageURL;
JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser();
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
int returnVal = fc.showDialog(frame,title);
if(returnVal==JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION){                    
     lastUsedPath = fc.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath();
     imageURL = getClass().getResource(lastUsedPath);     //don't really get this but I copied it from Java Swing Tutorial          
}else{
     return null;
int curH, curW;            
ImageIcon srcIcon = new ImageIcon(imageURL);                              
curW = srcIcon.getIconWidth();
curH = srcIcon.getIconHeight();If I use it this way imageURL is set to null.
If I set the imageURL as 'fc.getSelectedFile().toURL()' the string is eg.: "file:/E:/file.jpg" instead of "E:/file.jpg". After that the ImageIcon is created but width and height return -1.
If I try to create ImageIcon by 'new ImageIcon(lastUsedPath)' I get a not null object but the width & height of the ImageIcon is -1 as well.
What do I have to do to be able to create an ImageIcon from file selected in JFileChooser? Why is this so hard and mind blowing?

Answer 1

It still returns the ImageIcon object with width & height set to -1.
EDIT:
Got it finally:
lastUsedPathForStupidImageIcon = fc.getSelectedFile().getPath();     
img = ImageIO.read(new File(lastUsedPathForStupidImageIcon));
curH = img.getHeight(this);
curW = img.getWidth(this);The key was to use another String variable and hold the path instead of the absolute path
Edited by: Beholder on Jan 17, 2010 1:35 PM