Comments on: Tweeter v1.0 – simplifying Twitter and Actionscript

By: The Hippy

The Hippy — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:44:45 +0000

Hi Andi

Many thanks for your comment. I am indeed working on a Twitter event class. Typically though, work always seems to get in the way of me completing it Fingers crossed I’ll get back to it soon…please do feel free to send through any suggestions that you might have, I’m all for open collaboration.

TBOH

By: Andi

Andi — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:16:14 +0000

Hi,
first of all your class is very useful but there is one problem with your class. For example if you want to add add a scrollbar to your generated textfield, you have to know when data from your class is loaded and ready. therefore I dispatched an event at the end of your “SuccessFunc”

var readyEvent:Event=new Event("tweetsReady",true); dispatchEvent(readyEvent);

Then in your main application, you know when the data from twitter is ready:
t.getTweet();


t.addEventListener('tweetReady',onTweetReady);

public function onTweetReady(e:Event):void { trace("twitter data is ready"); }

I think a good approach would be to make a custom event class and pass the data from the tweeter.as class to main application via this custom event. This would be more flexible.

greetz Andi

By: The Hippy

The Hippy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:24:11 +0000

The class isn’t very complicated, so I’d imagine that if you’re ok with AS2 OOP you should be able to do a straightforward conversion. Although you’d probably need to change the other classes as well. Personally however, I’m hard at work on developing a load of new AS3 twitter classes so I don’t currently have any plans to release an AS2 version. Possibly in the future though, if there’s enough demand.

In the meantime, if you’re forced to use AS2, the only help I can offer is this thread: http://tinyurl.com/26xhvdf

Thanks for your comments!

By: TechFlashGuy

TechFlashGuy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:35:36 +0000

I love this thing. Some great info here.

I need however, to load this into a as2 swf (I know that this is not possible), but is there any way to convert this code to as2?

Thanks.

By: The Hippy

The Hippy — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:15:01 +0000

Hi again Prashant. I’m glad that you finally got it working – please do post a link here, I’d love to see it in action.

Many thanks!

By: Prashant Yashpal

Prashant Yashpal — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:25:43 +0000

Hi,
Okay for the last time, I got my app to work its showing my the twitter feed online too! yay! thanks.

The problem was coming from the fact, that i wanted the twitter profile picture to be loaded, but there is a sandbox problem with that!.
I will see if i find a solution to that.

Basically I am trying to use this to augmented a twitter feed. using flartoolkit.
if you like I can post a link here for the existing working app, but with no profile picture.

Thanks again for your super class. and help!

By: Prashant Yashpal

Prashant Yashpal — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:09:47 +0000

Hi
sorry to post so many times, just one question
do i need a crossdomain.xml file?

Thanks a lot!

By: Prashant Yashpal

Prashant Yashpal — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:47:30 +0000

Hi
Thanks for the reply!

I fail to understand the problem, I have build the app using Flash builder, when I play from my desktop all loads super.
But as soon as I put it online the same files , it does not load.

Does the proxy file and the app directory online have to be the same?
Or is it enough that the proxy is on the same server?

for eg. in my app the proxy is at . http://www.xyz.com/twitterar
(the proxy file is sitting here)

when i deploy my app it is at . http://www.xyz.com/mobar

this works perfect on my desktop but nothing happens online

Thanks for your help and a great app.
Hope i can figure this out and fix it.

Thanks

By: The Hippy

The Hippy — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:10:49 +0000

Unfortunately I can’t help with individual cases, but the two things that I would suggest first are:

1. Try again. Sometimes the Twitter feed goes down for long periods of time. This is unfortunately out of my control and something that I experienced during the testing process myself. If it occurs, wait a few hours and try again.

2. Check your proxy. Make sure that you can contact the proxy directly and that its output is as expected.

I hope that helps in some way.

By: Prashant Yashpal

Prashant Yashpal — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:55:28 +0000

Hi,
I managed to get this working in my Flash Builder application, it worked fine offline testing, but as soon as i put it online it stopped working!
And now it does not work, either it shows “Loading please wait”
or it says “Sorry there seems to be an error with twitter”
I have uploaded proxy file and double checked all links
I still have no clue why this is happening ?

Any clues can anyone help?

Thanks!