Need help with "Malformed URL: No Protocol" exception

I'm creating a File that points to a directory. Using File.list() I'm getting an array listing all the files (in this case, .gifs) in the directory. I'm trying to create a URL pointing to each one of these .gifs, but I get a "Malformed URL Exception: No protocol" for each one. My guess is that the Java URL class doesn't know what to do with the gif. Does anyone know any way around this?

try

{

String iconRootDir = "./Icons";

File iconRoot = new File(iconRootDir);

String[] fileList = iconRoot.list();

QLChoiceButton tempButton = null;

for (int i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++)

{

tempButton = new QLChoiceButton(this, new URL(iconRootDir+"/"+fileList[i])); //exception thrown here

buttonScrollPane.add(tempButton);

} //end for

} //end try

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