Rand is a noob
Rand is a noob
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if you can find a free chart or quote that is in .jpg format, you could load it dynamicly. most I've seen are .gif though.
if you find a .gif one you like, you could use one of those server side image saving libraries to grab the .gif, convert it to .jpg and shoot it off to your flash movie.
if it's just the data you're after you can set up a cron job on the server that scrubs a yahoo page (or the like) for the data every 15mins and outputs to the flash movie as XML.
any one of these methods might get your server IP blocked by the site you're stealing from.
You'll find it's around ~$100
per symbol per month for a feed, so it makes sense that providers don't want you getting it free.