Building RSS Reader in Flash Lite?

Hi there,
I'm looking to build an RSS Reader in Flash Lite.
I want to take a feed provived by FeedBurner.
I'm a relative newbie to Flash Development. Does anyone have any pointers on where to start or any good tutorials to kick me off?
Cheers

You should use the trace() function to see what values your code is processing for the loaded data. Looking at the rss file itself it does not appear to be consistent with its structure, so you might need to check that out as well.

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Thanks in advance.
Waiting for your reply.

Hi,
Take a look at the following projects:
Python and Flash Lite -
http://code.google.com/p/flyer/
(i2 tecnologia)
Java ME and Flash Lite -
http://code.google.com/p/jarpa
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Symbian and Flash Lite -
http://www.janus-flash.com/
Symbian and Flash Lite -
http://kunerilite.net/
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Hi Bill,
Can you tell when it will be available for download?
Today I installed Flash Lite 2.1 on my Asus M530W
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Hi everybody and thank you for reading. I´m working in a rss reader for my website, that has already a rss channel created. I created this in a file that is called news.rss. So I made the interface of the reader in Flash, and then continue inserting a code. But when I try the swf, it just shows the title of my channel, but any of my news. What is the problem? Here is my code:
var rssurl:String = "http://amorenaccion.netau.net/news.rss";
//var rssurl:String = "unijimpe.xml";
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 var vurl:String = "";
 var vdes:String = "";
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 for (i=0; i<nodo.childNodes.length; i++) {
 var snodo:XMLNode = nodo.childNodes[i];
 switch (snodo.nodeName) {
 case "title":
 vtit = snodo.firstChild.nodeValue;
 break;
 case "link":
 vurl = snodo.firstChild.nodeValue;
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 case "description":
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 var surl:String = "";
 var sdes:String = "";
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 var sxml:XMLNode = vxml.childNodes[j];
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 case "title":
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 case "link":
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 case "description":
 vdes = sxml.firstChild.nodeValue;
 break;
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You should use the trace() function to see what values your code is processing for the loaded data. Looking at the rss file itself it does not appear to be consistent with its structure, so you might need to check that out as well.

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answering this, but I've used the SDK for several projects and I
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FL is comparable to Flash 7, I doubt if it would work. Just my
humble opinion, but hope it helps.
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Hello,
I'm the PM for Flash Lite, and thank you for your interest in
our products.
Let me clarify the purpose of the Windows Mobile 5 release of
Flash Lite. As you are aware, we license Flash Lite to our OEM
customers so that they may integrate Flash Lite into their mobile
phones. Flash 7 SDK is not targeted at regular mobile phones - just
the pocketPC.
There are differences between Flash Lite and Flash Player 7
in that FP7 supports video and Flash Lite 2.1 does not. this is the
most fundamental difference between the two.
If you are building content that you expect will run not only
on PocketPC, but other mobile phones as well, then FL2.1 for WM5 is
a good starting place to test and try out your content because when
OEMs ship phones with Flash Lite 2.1 already preinstalled, your
content is "good to go".
Flash Lite 2.1 authoring is supported as an "add on" to the
Flash 8 authoring tool. Please check out our Flash 8 tool section
on Adobe.com here
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/
- select the Flash Lite 2.1 for Flash Professional 8.
You will need to use Flash 8 authoring with update for Flash
Lite 2.1 to create/author your content.
CDK = Content Development Kit - contains tips, samples etc.
Flash Player 7 SDK - this is a kit not for developers, but
for companies that may want to embed Flash Player 7 into their
devices such as set top boxes or game consoles. We give these
customers source code of the Flash 7 player.
The Flash Player 7 for PocketPC will play back Flash 7 and
prior versions of Flash content.
I would encourage you to read up on more of our online
resources and as you get more familiar with Flash, you will
definitely see that it is a very compelling application development
platform and join the thousands of other flash developers.
best regards,
Vinay

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I got something that can help you to build a Video Stream
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Go throught the about link the 3G alread has build a
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Querying a Flash Lite content type running in the player

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next rev
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might be
(potentially) useful.
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provide a
way to disable or enable functionality within content based
on how it is
being run (based on the content-type detected).
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softkey
navigation would appear. However, if run as standalone
content, a custom
UI might appear ... say giving the user the option to quit,
get more
info, etc.
I am posting here to see if others would be interested in
such
functionality.
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into SWF's
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functionality in
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this door. This could be very useful in the sense that developers
could then #include a single .as file that would act as a master
library regardless of content type.
Another feature that ties into this that I would love would
be FL version detection. Granted, this file could sort of be
created with FS2 command detection. But still, creating one library
file that covers all user input methods would be very nice.
To take this a step further, could this also detect what
edition a phone is? Again, this could be done with via a
WURFL, but that is a huge
pain (not to mention memory intensive). It would be sweet if my
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automatically build in controls for screen rotation and soft key
repositioning.
To sum up, I agree with you Scott. Btw—nice to see you
in the forums.

Flash Lite 1.1 swf's Do Not Embed Fonts

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publishing Flash Lite 1.1 content and using an embedded font
(rather than device fonts). I am certain that I am doing things
correctly (bitmap text, embedding fonts, etc.), because I verified
that the files work perfectly with the Flash 8 compiler.
To be more direct, a Flash Lite 1.1 swf in Flash 8 will have
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Flash CS3 with ALL updates
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Nokia 6620 (Flash Lite 2.0 from Adobe)
Nokia nGage (Flash Lite 1.1 from Adobe)

Ryan, please open a support case via
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Tools for Flash Lite 3 development.

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Hi,
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If I want to develop mobile applications, Flash Lite is the
unique way, or can I build an application just using flex?
regards

Flex applications require FlashPlayer 9, so the quick answer
is no.

Multi tab rss reader

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This is a shame that Apple doesnt (somehow) make this one of the cross-platform features.
I mean come on, how many of us mac users actually have ALL our computer-using relatives on a mac? In a perfect world, all of us, but reality is, I'm the only one out of about 11 people on my and my wife's side of the family that we share pics of the kids with. Everyone else uses Winblows.
I was pumped when I heard about photocasting. Alas, now that I've tried to make this work smoothly for the novice windows users who want to see pictures of our kids, I realize there is *zero chance* of me being able to use this. There is no way I can see myself sending my 63 year old mother an RSS feed link and having her figure out what to do with it (when she can barely figure out how to look at the pics I send in email he he). If she has to go install an RSS reader, forget it.
Anyway, great mac only feature, but this would be a huge feather in Apple's cap if they could figure out how to serve this up to Windows end users just as effortlessly.
eMac, PB17" Mac OS X (10.4.4)
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