With some tutorial from AlaaShaker’s weblog I designed 2 different RSS newsreaders:

1.       Box split into 2, top part shows a series of titles. When clicking on one title the relevant description arrears in the bottom part

2.       One box, where it shows a series of titles. When clicking on one title it links to an individual url.

Both work, but ideally I would like to combine these two solutions as follows:

Split box into 2 parts as version 1, top part shows a series of titles. When clicking on one title the relevant description appears in the bottom part. When clicking on the description in the bottom part, it links to an individual url.

Can anyone please please help? My flash knowledge is very very basic and I am not getting anywhere. I’ve already spent days on it.

Thank you very much in advance.

Actionscript 3 for RSS Reader (title – description)

import fl.managers.StyleManager;

var logFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

logFormat.font = "Verdana";

logFormat.size = 11;

logFormat.italic = true;

logFormat.bold = true;

logFormat.color = "0x313131";

StyleManager.setStyle("textFormat", logFormat);

var rssLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

var rssURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.conyercc.org.uk/ccc_rss.xml");

rssLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, rssLoaded);

rssLoader.load(rssURL);

var rssXML:XML = new XML();

rssXML.ignoreWhitespace = true;

function rssLoaded(evt:Event):void {

        rssXML = XML(rssLoader.data);

        //trace(rssXML);

        for(var item:String in rssXML.channel.item) {

                liLog.addItem( {label: rssXML.channel.item[item].title } );

        }

}

function selectLog(evt:Event):void {

        var list:XMLList =

                rssXML.channel.item[evt.target.selectedIndex ].children();

        var item:XML;

        for(var i = 0; i<list.length(); i++)

                if(list.name() == "description")

                { i++; break; }

        item = list.children()[0];

taLog.htmlText = rssXML.channel.item[evt.target.selectedIndex].description;

}

liLog.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, selectLog);

Actionscript 3 for RSS Reader (title – link)

import fl.managers.StyleManager;

import fl.events.ListEvent;

var logFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

logFormat.font = "Verdana";

logFormat.size = 11;

logFormat.italic = true;

logFormat.bold = true;

logFormat.color = "0x313131";

StyleManager.setStyle("textFormat", logFormat);

var rssLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader ();

var rssURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.conyercc.org.uk/ccc_rss.xml");

rssLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, rssLoaded);

rssLoader.load(rssURL);

var rssXML:XML = new XML();

rssXML.ignoreWhitespace = true;

function rssLoaded(evt:Event):void {

    rssXML = XML(rssLoader.data);

    for(var item:String in rssXML.channel.item) {

        liLog.addItem( {label:rssXML.channel.item[item].title,link:rssXML.channel.item[item] .link} );

    }

}

liLog.addEventListener(ListEvent.ITEM_CLICK,clickedLogF);

function clickedLogF(e:ListEvent){

    navigateToURL(new URLRequest((liLog.getItemAt(e.index).link)));

}