Link to external image

I am a little new to Director and wondering if somebody could
help me out
here....
I have a placeholder image in my project (which will be
running as
Shockwave) and depending on variable criteria, it will be
loading a
replacement image from someplace on the Internet. I do not
need to worry
about size of the image as I have control over that and
everything is
consistent.
How do I replace my placeholder image with lingo and point to
the internet
location? Can the name remain the same as my original
placeholder image so
I can re-use the code over and over again?
Thanks guys... it looks like you provide great help here.

Try:
tPlaceholderMember.filename = "URL_of_bitmap"
Or:
-- preload bitmap with preloadNetThing("URL)
-- poll for completion or error from timeout or frame event
-- if no error then
tPlaceholderMember.filename = "URL_of_bitmap"
-- end if

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