Convert and String(path of image) to a Bitmap obj

The solution should be straight forward but I cannot find it, my problem it's that I'm reading a xml, and one of the properties inside the xml it's a Bitmap path(string), when I`m reading this开发者_开发技巧 xml I would like to convert this string to a Bitmap Obj so I can use through my MXMLs.

Some suggestion?!

---

I would load the bitmapData like heartcode wrote in their answer.

But to retreive the BitmapData in the loaded function I would do this

var ldr:Loader = event.currentTarget as Loader;    
var bitmap:Bitmap = Bitmap(ldr.content);
var bd:BitmapData = new Bitmap(bitmap.bitmapData.clone(), "auto", true);
ldr.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addBitmap);
ldr = null; //Allow flex to gc the Loaded as you now have two copies of the bytes in memory

Using the draw method, I think the loader will need to be on the stage so it can be rendered. This will avoid that. You can the assign bd as the source of the BitmapImage

---

if you need the bitmapdata or the bitmap, try this:

import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*;

var bitmapPath:String = "imageFilePath";
var myBitmap:Bitmap;
var bitmapLoader:Loader;

bitmapLoader = new Loader();
bitmapLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addBitmap);
bitmapLoader.load(new URLRequest(bitmapPath));

function addBitmap(event:Event):void
{
    var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(event.currentTarget.content.width, event.currentTarget.content.height);
    bd.draw(event.currentTarget.content);

    myBitmap = new Bitmap(bd);
    addChild(myBitmap);
};

---

If you're using MXML, you should just be able to pass the string directly to the "source" attribute of the tag. Flex abstracts away all of the loading stuff.

---

I posted some code that may help for a similar question that was asked a little while ago. It will take your XML contents and preload the images into an ArrayCollection to use later.

Embeding images in an Flex application