reloading .txt files into a flash movie?

[ravenotice]

is it possible to do the following and where is it possible for me to resource some info on how I would go about doing this!

a flash page..containing scroll bars which loads a external .txt file [this part is ok]

how can I tell flash to refresh/reload this .txt file say every 5 mins....because changes maybe made to its content over a period of time on the server by an external person

thanks
ravenotice

[oldnewbie]

A timer thingy that would reload the movie itself on level0?
Guess it could also be done with java, within the html holding the Flash movie itself... Refreshing it every 5 minutes or so!

[pixelboy]

function loadTextFile(){
loadVariablesNum("myTextFile.txt",0);
}

intervalID = setInterval(loadTextFile, 300000);

The 'setInterval' will run every 5 minutes. If you want to stop this at any stage just go:

clearInterval(intervalID);

cheers
pixelboy

[ravenotice]

oldnewbie

thanks for your feedback....I dont want to reload the html page just the .txt document which is the content in the scroller bar...do you know where I can access some tutorials of actionscript which could help me?

thanks
ravenotice