Comments on: DirectorWeb sports a new RSS feed http://cogdogblog.com/2003/07/14/directorweb-sports/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michelle http://cogdogblog.com/2003/07/14/directorweb-sports/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Michelle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2003/07/14/directorweb-sports-a-new-rss-feed/#comment-87 Hi, do you know how I could implement a certain RSS-feed in a Director Shockwave file to display the information given in the feed? I'd like to build a screensaver with Director that automatically searches for updates of the RSS-feed of my website and displays it on the screen. Hi, do you know how I could implement a certain RSS-feed in a Director Shockwave file to display the information given in the feed? I’d like to build a screensaver with Director that automatically searches for updates of the RSS-feed of my website and displays it on the screen.

]]> By: Alan Levine http://cogdogblog.com/2003/07/14/directorweb-sports/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Alan Levine Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2003/07/14/directorweb-sports-a-new-rss-feed/#comment-88 I cannot help much since I have not programmed anything in Director for 2+ years. You most likely would use the Macromedia XML parser (it used to be chided for being slow, but maybe it has been boosted), since an RSS feed is just XML, you would use the built in code to pick out the pieces of content you need inside Director. See: <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=xml+parser&area=support.director">http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=xml+parser&area=support.director</a> A few more leads via Google: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=parse+xml+%2Brss+%2Bmacromedia+%2Bdirector">http://www.google.com/search?q=parse+xml+%2Brss+%2Bmacromedia+%2Bdirector</a> And I would be there are some articles at DOUG: <a href="http://director-online.com/">http://director-online.com/</a> Good luck! I cannot help much since I have not programmed anything in Director for 2+ years.

You most likely would use the Macromedia XML parser (it used to be chided for being slow, but maybe it has been boosted), since an RSS feed is just XML, you would use the built in code to pick out the pieces of content you need inside Director. See:

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=xml+parser&area=support.director

A few more leads via Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=parse+xml+%2Brss+%2Bmacromedia+%2Bdirector

And I would be there are some articles at DOUG:

http://director-online.com/

Good luck!

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