Converting bitmap to sprite for animation

Question

/*the point of this is to add a keyboardEvent to animate the image*/
I am loading a bitmap image using this function:
var myLoader : Loader = new Loader();
var myURLRequest : URLRequest = new URLRequest("thesus.png");
myLoader.load(myURLRequest);
function myOnComplete(event : Event) : Bitmap
var loader : Loader = Loader(event.target.loader);
var image : Bitmap = Bitmap(loader.content)
stage.addChild(image);
return image;
myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, myOnComplete);
then I am converting it to a sprite using this function:
function bitmapToSprite(image:Bitmap, smoothing:Boolean = false):Sprite
   var sprite:Sprite = new Sprite();
   sprite.addChild( new Bitmap(image.bitmapData.clone(), "auto", smoothing) );
   return sprite;
but I am unable to pass it to this sprite variable:
var thesus : Sprite = bitmapToSprite;
Any help would be greatly appreciated :-)

Answer 1

Thank you for your help Joporo,
I was trying to return a bitmap from an eventHandler, which cannot return anything I now know.
I ended up getting it to work like so:
var myLoader : Loader = new Loader();
myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, myOnComplete);
var myURLRequest : URLRequest = new URLRequest("thesus.png");
myLoader.load(myURLRequest);
var image:Bitmap;
var thesus:Sprite;
function myOnComplete(event : Event) : void
var loader : Loader = Loader(event.target.loader);
image = Bitmap(loader.content)
thesus = (bitmapToSprite(image));
stage.addChild(thesus);
thesus.x = 90;
thesus.y = 165;
along with the bitmapToSprite method it added the image to the stage as a sprite