# RSS Ticker AS3 HELP

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rss-ticker-as3-help/300663>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 25, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rss-ticker-as3-help/300663 "2009-11-25T08:28:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charlos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@Charlos](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Charlos)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rss-ticker-as3-help/300663/1 "2009-11-25T08:28:34Z")

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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 &lt; a) {
	textBox.appendText( "&lt;b&gt;" + theXMLData.channel.item**.title + "&lt;/b&gt;" );
	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