NativeWindow reload in AIR/HTML apps?

In an AIR/HTML app, is it possible to make a NativeWindow
reload itself? I don't see anything in the API docs for
NativeWindow that would allow this.
I am opening new NativeWindows via a JS function, but if a
particular window is already open, i call orderToFront() to get the
window in focus instead of creating a new NativeWindow, but I would
like to have the window contents refreshed because I am passing
different parameters in the query string. Any way to do a simple
HTML/JS-style window.reload() equivalent for NativeWindow?
thanks,
-norm

Hi,
Since this is an HTML AIR app, you probably only need to
refresh HTMLLoader.
For eg: nativeWindowObj.stage.htmlLoader.reload().

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