AS3 Question - display an image from a string in a variable

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solved using htmlText with a textField

Hi, quick question hoping someone may have an idea on how to achieve this.

I have this variable

var userPicLoc:String = “http://tinyurl.com/2qk25q”;

I would like to display this using AS3 in a movieclip used as a user pic when a user logs in. I do not want to load an actual image, but want to use the actual URL as the source for what is displayed.

In Flex, you are able to create a Label and make its Source a variable containing a URL String like the one above. It looks something like this:

<mx:Image id=“userImg” source="{userPicLoc}"
width=“50” height=“50” includeIn=“logout”/>

I would like to do this in AS3 but I am not sure the best way to go about this, or if there is some easy way to do this.

Thanks in advance for any help!

TomKub