getting an swf to display my xml message board text

[drkknght]

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!

[mngn9drb]

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!

[drkknght]

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!