RSS Ticker AS3 HELP

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Hi.

Bare over with me I’m new to actionscripting.

I’m trying to make a simple RSS ticker in actionscript 3.

The RSS part works fine but I can’t get the ticker thing going.

The code is like this.

textBox.htmlText = “”;
var b:Number = 0;

var xmlURLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var xmlURLRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest ( “rss_example.xml” );

var newsTimer:Timer = new Timer(2000);

xmlURLLoader.load( xmlURLRequest );

xmlURLLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE , dataLoaded );
newsTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, updateNews);

function dataLoaded (event:Event):void {

var theXMLData:XML = new XML ( xmlURLLoader.data );
var a:Number = theXMLData.channel.item.length();

newsTimer.start();	

    while (b < a) {
	textBox.appendText( "<b>" + theXMLData.channel.item**.title + "</b>" );
	textBox.appendText( "

" );
textBox.appendText( “<i>” + theXMLData.channel.item**.pubDate + “</i>” + " " + theXMLData.channel.item**.description );
textBox.appendText( "

" );
textBox.appendText( “<a href= \u0022” + theXMLData.channel.item**.link + “\u0022 >Click Here </a>” );
textBox.appendText( "

" );

	b = b + 1;
}
textBox.htmlText = textBox.text;

}

function updateNews(event:TimerEvent):void
{
if (b < theXMLData.channel.item.length())
{
textBox.text = theXMLData.channel.item**.text();
}
else
{
b = 0;
textBox.text = theXMLData.channel.item**.text();
}
b++;
}

Help would be greatly appreciated. I’m in a bit of a hurry.

Sincerely Yours Charlos