outputting bitmap path from xml file

[Laura MS]

You guys have been great for helping me solve problems!

I have another.

I have an xml file that includes image paths.

I'd like to read that image path from the xml and display the image (a jpg or gif) on the stage.

However, when I trace image_path from my xml file, the result seems to knock off the "http:" part of the node.

Also, when I load the image, the loader ends up being null (maybe this is because I didn't set up an event handler for it).

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Colin Holgate]

Hard to tell what might be wrong with the xml part of the problem, without seeing the xml. With loaders you would normal set an event listener to then do things with it after it's loaded. Like this:

var _loader:Loader = new Loader();
_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener (Event.COMPLETE,imageloaded)
_loader.load(new URLRequest(myXML.myNode.image_path ));


function imageloaded(e:Event){
trace(_loader.content);
}

I don't think _loader will have any content until the loading is complete.