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RSS Feed News Reader v.1.0
Move mouse over the news list to scroll up and down. Click item to open/close news body. Hold SPACE to pause scrolling while reading. Read entire article by clicking on "Original link" button. Compatible with RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. Just load RSS into a XML object and create a RSSFeed object. Drag the News List from library give it any dimensions from Propeties Panel or via setSize method giving the width and height parameters. Pass the RSSFeed object to generateList method. Customize skins by editing Library symbols.

Also create your own XML news file based on RSS standars and use it to display your own news. See RSSFeed.as and News.as for available properties.

Use news.php to be able to retrieve data from different domain. Remmeber to include your domain in the file path when you pass the php file as parameter for your XML load method.

Also, news content can have a fix height or it can stretch to fit the content. If you want a fix height, go to NewsContent.as, find autoResize variable and set it to true, then go to NewsList.as and set the _HEIGHT_ variable to any number you desire. If you use the fixed height, but the content is longer, a scrollbar will appear. If you use auto resize, the _HEIGHT_ variable is ignored.