How to display ping information of a server on the stage in AS3

Question

so I have a code to ping a server, but it traces the information. I want to change that, and use dynamic text to display that ping information on the stage. How would I do that? Here is my code:

var ldr:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
ldr.addEventListener(HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, ldrStatus);

var url:String = "URL-TO-SITE";
var limit:int = 10;

var time_start:Number;
var time_stop:Number;
var times:int;

ping();

function ping():void
{
    trace("pinging", url);

    times = 0;
    doThePing();
}

function doThePing():void
{
    time_start = getTimer();
    ldr.load(new URLRequest(url));
}

function ldrStatus(evt:*):void
{
    if(evt.status == 200)
    {
        time_stop = getTimer();
        trace("got response in", time_stop - time_start, "ms");
    }

    times++;
    if(times < limit) doThePing();
}

Answer 1

Im not sure if this is what you are asking, but if you want to show the information that is being traced right now, you have to have a textfield on the stage, or create one dynamically. You could do it like this you want to make a text field:

import flash.text.TextField;

function ldrStatus(evt:*):void{

    if(evt.status == 200)
    {
        time_stop = getTimer();
        trace("got response in", time_stop - time_start, "ms");

        var tf:TextField = new TextField();
        addChild(tf);
        tf.text = "got response in"+ (time_stop - time_start) + "ms";
    }

    times++;
    if(times < limit) doThePing();
}

Answer 2

It worked, I just made a text box on the stage called textBox, and added some code to the end.

var ldr:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
ldr.addEventListener(HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, ldrStatus);

var url:String = "http://google.com.net";
var limit:int = 10;

var time_start:Number;
var time_stop:Number;
var times:int;

ping();

function ping():void
{
    trace("pinging", url);

    times = 1;
    doThePing();
}

function doThePing():void
{
    time_start = getTimer();
    ldr.load(new URLRequest(url));
}

function ldrStatus(evt:*):void
{
    if(evt.status == 200)
    {
        time_stop = getTimer();
        textBox.text = String("got response in", time_stop - time_start, "ms");
    }


}