AS3 - Loading Image Coordinates from URL

Question

I am developing an Android App in Air for Android using Flash Pro CC & I am tired of pushing updates all the time to change a spawn location for an image that needs to move every few days to a specific location. I won't know the location until just minutes before the update needs to be pushed & it would be much faster to simply have the app load the spawn coordinates for the image upon launch from my website in a .txt file. I would need something where I just type the X and Y coordinates in a file & then the information is loaded and AS3 spawns the image at those coordinates. If no coordinates are available in the text file (as 5 days of the week there won't be), I need a different image to be displayed wherever I place it. I will probably just have a separate frame for that though.

Any help is greatly appreciated & I'd prefer it if the image can be used in a motion tween but if not then I will work something out.

NOTE: I am new to AS3 coding but I have Flash itself figured out for animating with the timeline.

Answer 1

I have the finished code here. loadURL is the Document Class loaded by Flash. Everything works great!

package  {
    // IMPORTS EVENTS USED
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.net.URLLoader;
    import flash.events.UncaughtErrorEvent;
    import flash.events.ErrorEvent;
    import flash.events.Event;

    // DECLARES VARIABLES
    public class loadURL extends MovieClip {
        public var Xurl:String = "URL GOES HERE";
        public var Yurl:String = "URL GOES HERE";
        public var URLloaderX:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
        public var URLloaderY:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
        public var marker:Marker = new Marker();
        public var gone:Gone = new Gone();
        public var connectionerr:ConnectionErr = new ConnectionErr();

        // CODE EXECUTED UPON LAUNCH
        public function loadURL() {
            // constructor code
            trace("Loaded");
            URLloaderX.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandlerX);
            URLloaderX.load(new URLRequest(Xurl));
            URLloaderY.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandlerY);
            URLloaderY.load(new URLRequest(Yurl));
            loaderInfo.uncaughtErrorEvents.addEventListener(UncaughtErrorEvent.UNCAUGHT_ERROR, onUncaughtError);
        }
function completeHandlerX(event:Event):void
    {
        if(URLloaderX.data == null||URLloaderX.data==(""))
            {addChild(gone)}
        else{addChild(marker);marker.x = (URLloaderX.data)}
    }
function completeHandlerY(event:Event):void
    {
        if(URLloaderY.data == null||URLloaderY.data==("")){}
            marker.y = (URLloaderY.data)
    }

private function onUncaughtError(e:UncaughtErrorEvent):void //Checks for no internet connection

    {
        e.preventDefault(); //leave this

// RESULT OF NO INTERNET HERE
        addChild(connectionerr);
    }   
    }
    }