How to dynamically create a movieclip of an image

Question

Hi there !
Im Java developer in transition to AS3, my task is to create one of those spaceship games ( beathazard / asteroids style ) but im already being destroyed by the differences between these languages.... im trying to make this game completely through AS3, in other words, trying to evade manual setup as much as possible, at this moment, im trying to create my spaceship (an instance of my SpaceShip class), my background (instance of my Scenary class), my bullets (instance of Bullet class) and my game ( Game class ).
The first problem im having is that i cant seem to make the ship find its sprite while executing its  constructor so i can create a new instance of it and add it to my game (actually, my scenary).
Any ideias of how to do this ?Im using this constructor :
public function Nave() {
var imgLoader : Loader = new Loader();
               imgLoader.load(
new URLRequest("../img/normalShip.png"));
this.addChild(imgLoader);}
and then just creating an instance of this ship on my game and adding it as a child of my game.
Thanks in advance ! Any advice will be very welcome !!!

Answer 1

If you want to add the loaded image to a MovieClip or Sprite, you need to wait until the image is loaded before doing so.  To wait for it you assign a COMPLETE event listener to the contentLoaderInfo property of the Loader.  Once it is loaded you can have the event handloer function process the Loader.content (the image) into whatever object you plan to have it in.