how to auto update rss xml in flash without whole page refresh?

[DavidPlus]

Hi all. I don't have experience working with flash . But i need a help adding auto update rss xml to a flash image rotator which is not made me(The author provided the source .fla file).Now flash pulls image url from a rss feed but if i want view updated rss i have to reload the whole page!!

I appreciate if any one help me modify this flash so it pulls data every 15 seconds automatically without refreshing the whole page. i know you might suggest to use javascript but i want to use this flash where javascript is disabled.I did some search and noticed flash has this auto update power but never found a good tutorial on how to do it!!

Currently flash image rotator pulls rss xml feed like shown below. I appreciate some one help in achieving this task.Thanks

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="./imagerotator.swf" height="180" width="448">
  <param name="movie" value="./imagerotator.swf" />
  <param name="allownetworking" value="internal" />
  <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
  <param name="enableJSURL" value="false" />
  <param name="enableHREF" value="false" />
  <param name="saveEmbedTags" value="true" />
  <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
 [b] <param name="flashvars" value="file=externalfeed.php&autostart=true&transition=fade&shownavigation=false&rotatetime:4&shuffle=true" />[/b]
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
</object>
</div>

Looking foward for some help.Thanks

 

[kennethkawamoto]

I can only test with local playlist.xml, but if I change the XML manually the image displayed automatically changes too. I just tested it and works fine.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[DavidPlus]

Thanks it worked now. i think there was catch problem that didn't work before. Is there a way to hardcode externalfeed.php part inside flash itself :

<param name="flashvars" value="[b]file=externalfeed.php[/b]&autostart=true&transition=fade&shownavigation=false&rotatetime:4&shuffle

There are sites that doesn't allow any .php extention so could you tell me where inside flash i can tell it to look for externalfeed.php instead of passing externalfeed.php via param variables?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Yes you can hard code all of your FlashVars inside the SWF.

<param name="flashvars" value="file=externalfeed.php&autostart=true&transition=fade&shownavigation=false&rotatetime=4&shuffle=true" />

The above HTML is the same as having following in the frame 1 of the main timeline:

var file:String = "externalfeed.php";
var autostart:String = "true";
var transition:String = "fade";
var shownavigation:String = "false";
var rotatetime:String = "4";
var shuffle:String = "true";

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[DavidPlus]

kennethkawamoto thanks once again. do you mean i paste those varibles just before the following code?:

// Start the rotator
var irt = new com.jeroenwijering.players.ImageRotator(this.rotator);
function startNewRotator():Void {
    irt.loadConfig();
}
setInterval(this, "startNewRotator", 15*1000);

Furthemore,How to display other image information such as title,creator, info beside using the url from following xml:

<playlist version="1" xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://xspf.org/ns/0/">[/URL]    
<trackList>       
 <track>           
 <title>Grass by Night</title>            
<creator>Jeroen Wijering</creator>           
 <location>image1.jpg</location>            
<info>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.jeroenwijering.com</info>[/URL]      
  </track>      

</playlist>