# Bitmaps with classes instead of identifiers
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmaps-with-classes-instead-of-identifiers/261851
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 31, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmaps-with-classes-instead-of-identifiers/261851 "2008-05-31T20:10:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@rumblesushi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rumblesushi)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmaps-with-classes-instead-of-identifiers/261851/1 "2008-05-31T20:10:20Z")
I’m learning AS3 now for the very first time 😃
I’ve been putting it off, as I have been in an AS2 comfort zone, but it’s silly really, at some point I need to learn AS3, I may as well start now.
I’ve got my head around AS3 classes a bit, and using copyPixels purely with BM rendering, no MCs, no sprites etc.
However, instead of just drawing a coloured rectangle for particles, I’m having trouble attaching a bitmap.
In AS2 you did it like this…
[AS]var pic:BitmapData = BitmapData.loadBitmap(“myPic”);[/AS]
With myPic being the identifier of the JPG in the library.
No there is no identifier, just class name, but how do I introduce the pic as a BMD object? And from an external class not the FLA? Not even necessarily attach it to the stage, just load it into memory as BMD, so I can copy pixels from it.
I know it’s basic, but I’m an AS3/OOP noob and I can’t seem to figure it out.
Cheers,
Joe
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Lexcuk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alex_Lexcuk)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmaps-with-classes-instead-of-identifiers/261851/2 "2008-05-31T20:21:53Z")
[http://kind-armadillo.pochta.ru/FlaAC3/Bmp\_copy.swf](http://kind-armadillo.pochta.ru/FlaAC3/Bmp_copy.swf)
[http://kind-armadillo.pochta.ru/FlaAC3/BMP\_copy.rar](http://kind-armadillo.pochta.ru/FlaAC3/BMP_copy.rar)
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### Author:  [@rumblesushi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rumblesushi)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmaps-with-classes-instead-of-identifiers/261851/3 "2008-05-31T21:18:21Z")
You Russian diamond you 😉
Cheers.