getting an swf to display my xml message board text

infopop's "ultimate bulletin board" forum program has the ability to dynamically pull information from the message board and place it somewhere else. for example, you can display the 5 most recent posts on the board within a little table on your homepage.

i'd like to do something similar, except display the most recent posts within a flash movie.

knowing that flash works well with xml, and that the infopop program can output the data i need as xml, i was hoping someone here could walk me through how i get the flash movie to display the information?

i've already set up my boards to dynamically output the information i want (5 most recent posts in a particular forum) as an RSS (1.0) file, which i'm told will work. that gives me a single xml string:

http://www.robkamphausen.com/ubb/Con...ds/4/rss10.xml

but how do i enter that into a flash movie, in order to display the textual information? better yet, if its a lot of information, can it be set up to scroll?

thanks for any clouds you can clear in my head! :)

I was bored (and haven't touched Flash for a while so needed to fill the void non-exposure to my fave app creates...) so I built this for you - needs a bit of work, but essentially it works. If the XML feed is on another server you'll need to run the PHP file I wrote to proxy the feed into your new server, but if not, you can do it like I did in the FLA.

Hope that helps!

you, mr mngn9drb sir, are the awesomest of awesomes :)

imma mess around with this all day tomorrow to tweak it, but you've absolutely helped me out big time.

thank you SO much!