Flex scrolling text component with html support

For one of my websites I would like to have a scrolling text bar with the lasted updates of that website. This is easy in flex, Peter Ent already made a flex builder 3 library project. This project only supports scrolling text. I want to click on the scrolling text and flex should redirect the browser to the right update. So I changed Peter Ent project so it supports the htmlText and Link event. With htmlText you can markup the scrolling text.
With this new library projectI made a flex application which reads a xml with all the scrolling text entries. Now I only have to update the xml if I make a change to the website. You can click on one of the scrolling entries and the link event redirects this to the right url. Here is an picture of the scrolling bar.
Here is the xml which I use as input for the scrolling htmlText.

<updates>
 <update date="28-06-2008" link="http://www.sbsframes.nl/raceteam/raceteam.html" label="Raceteam"/>
 <update date="26-06-2008" link="http://www.sbsframes.nl/youtube/youtube.html#video=119" label="Kerkdriel race 2"/>
 <update date="26-06-2008" link="http://www.sbsframes.nl/youtube/youtube.html#video=118" label="Kerkdriel race 1"/>
 <update date="24-06-2008" link="http://www.sbsframes.nl/fotos/Fotos.html" label="Fotoalbum"/>
</updates>

My Flex project code which reads the input xml and handles the link event.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" 
 xmlns:comp="com.keaura.controls.*"   
 applicationComplete="service.send()" 
 width="100%" height="25"
    backgroundGradientColors="[#CCCCCC, #CCCCCC]"
    horizontalScrollPolicy="off" 
    verticalScrollPolicy="off"  layout="absolute">
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import flash.events.TextEvent; 
            import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent; 
            
            public function linkHandler(event:TextEvent):void {
                navigateToURL(new URLRequest(event.text), '_self')
            }
            
            private function resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void  {  
               var resultObj:Object = event.result as Object;
               var i:int;
               var updatesText:String = "<font color='#000000' size='14'>"
                                       +"Laatste updates: ";
               for ( i = 0 ; i < resultObj.updates.update.length ; i++ ) {
                 updatesText += "<a href='event:"+resultObj.updates.update[i].link+"'>"
                                  +"<b>"+resultObj.updates.update[i].date+"</b> "
                                  +resultObj.updates.update[i].label+"</a>  ";
                                  
                 trace(resultObj.updates.update[i].label);
               }
               scroll.htmlText = updatesText;
               scroll.addEventListener("link", linkHandler);
               scroll.start();
           } 
   
           private function mouseOver():void {
 scroll.stop();
           } 
           private function mouseOut():void {
 scroll.start();
           } 
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

   <mx:HTTPService id="service" url="updates.xml"  
           result="resultHandler(event)"  
           resultFormat="object" 
           useProxy="false" 
           showBusyCursor="true" />  
   <comp:ScrollingText id="scroll" width="100%" height="100%"
           color="black" speed="3" x="0" y="0"
           mouseOver="mouseOver()" mouseOut="mouseOut()"/>
</mx:Application>