Is MediaFile Required?

[aperry]

I have some JPEG images that I want to show thumbnails of in a menu. The only way I have been able to get them to show is to do something similar to the following:

+ currFile = new_java_io_File(filename)
  + if GetMediaFileForFilePath(currfile) == null
    + true
      + AddMediaFile(currfile, "")
        + Refresh()
          + GetThumbnail(GetMediaFileForFilePath(currfile))
    + false
      + GetThumbnail(GetMediaFileForFilePath(currfile))
        -pic- Untitled

My question is, do I really need to do the "AddMediaFile" or is there another way of pulling in the image? Is there really a problem doing the AddMediaFile, or am I worrying for nothing?

Thanks for any help!