How to Load & Display Image

Hello Everyone.

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);

...

...

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 a days now, and would greatly appreciate some help.

Thanking you in advance,

Sofia.