# Loading bitmaps

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-bitmaps/281680
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 12, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-bitmaps/281680 "2009-02-12T02:54:52Z")
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### Author: ![michdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@michdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/michdd)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-bitmaps/281680/1 "2009-02-12T02:54:52Z")

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I’ve been learning AS3 for a while now, and it’s my first Actionscript language, but not my first coding language. I’ve learned a lot so far, but I started off doing things in the not so efficient, or correct ways. I was putting all of my actionscript on frames. I’m trying to get in the habit of doing it the right way now. But I’m having a basic problem. I can’t figure out how to load a bitmap from the library in AS3. Can someone help me please?