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Comment 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

Comment on Tweeter v1.0 – simplifying Twitter and Actionscript 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

Comment on Flash on the Beach 2010 by Patrick Rushton

Patrick Rushton — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:06:01 +0000

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Comment on Strict XHTML target=”_blank” replacement by Justin Wanstall

Justin Wanstall — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:16:54 +0000

I really quick and easy way to apply this to all external links is with a bit of jquery.

Just add this to your HTML and include the jquery framework in the head.

$(document).ready( function() {
$(‘a[href^=http]‘).click( function() {
window.open(this.href);
return false;
});
});

Whenever a link has “http://” in the href jquery will open it in a new window – no need to code javascript into individual links

Comment on Tweeter v1.0 – simplifying Twitter and Actionscript 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!

Comment on Tweeter v1.0 – simplifying Twitter and Actionscript 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.

Comment on Warning 1090: Migration issue by Ivannof

Ivannof — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:02:45 +0000

Someone could meet the same warring (1090) when you will be you use the .as files, which had been written under Flash CS4 (but in AS3). For example, CS5 want to change “onKeyUp” in “keyUp” and so on. After changing it will be OK: no warning.
But under CS4 there was no pesky buzz on the original line withe “onKeyUp”.
Strictly syntax rules?

Comment on Tweeter v1.0 – simplifying Twitter and Actionscript 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!

Comment on Tweeter v1.0 – simplifying Twitter and Actionscript 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!

Comment on Tweeter v1.0 – simplifying Twitter and Actionscript 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!