Load & Display Image in ActionScript - image

Question

I am typing with very green fingers, so, please excuse the question. Learning from examples, I have been trying to load and display an image in ActionScript. This is from the original example that I am working on:
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var bmd2:BitmapData = bmd.clone();
var infoBM:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd2);
var back:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
back.name = "back";
back.rotationX = -90;
var bSurface:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
bSurface.y = int(...
bSurface.z = int(...
bSurface.addChild(infoBM);
var overlay:Sprite = new Sprite();
overlay.graphics.beginFill(...);
overlay.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, bSurface.width, bSurface.height);
overlay.graphics.endFill();
bSurface.addChild(overlay);
back.addChild(bSurface);
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf...
tf...
tf...
bSurface.addChild(tf);
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I am trying to place an image onto the bSurface instead of the text block, as above. So far, I've come up with:
var iSprite:Sprite = new Sprite();
var iMatrix:Matrix = new Matrix();
var bmData:BitmapData;
bmData = new BitmapData(surface.width, surface.height, true, 123);
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
loader.load(new URLRequest("c:\pixlr.png"));
function onComplete (event:Event):void
{
bmData = Bitmap(LoaderInfo(event.target).content).bitmapData;
}
iMatrix.tx = 0;
iMatrix.ty = 0;
iSprite.graphics.beginBitmapFill(bmData, iMatrix, false, true);
iSprite.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, surface.width, surface.height);
iSprite.graphics.endFill();
surface.addChild(iSprite);
...and:
var bmData:BitmapData;
bmData = new BitmapData(surface.width, surface.height, true, 123);
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
var location:URLRequest = new URLRequest("c:\pixlr.png");
loader.load(location);
bmData = Bitmap(loader.content).bitmapData;
surface.addChild(bmData);
but to no success. I've been failing miserably for days now, and would greatly appreciate some help.
Thanking you in advance,
Sofia

Answer 1

You're making this more complicated than it needs to be. A Loader is a DisplayObject. So when you want to load an image you can simply do this:
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
loader.load(new URLRequest("c:\pixlr.png"));
addChild(loader);
You can use the onComplete event to handle any sizing or positioning, or fading in you might want to do.