Comments on: Getting Flash and Twitter to play nice.

By: Steven H

Steven H — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:45:43 +0000

btw, if you’re having regexp problems just remove until you have time to sort out properly :

regExp = new RegExp()

By: Steven H

Steven H — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:43:40 +0000

Fabulous solution…ideal if you just need to read the tweets…thanks for sharing!! If you need to post tweets, i guess it would still need a PHP proxy.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:56:04 +0000

Hey. Thank you.
I do indeed have a suggestion. To be honest the regex in this code is crap. (In fact the entire class could do with some refactoring, so check back in a little and I’ll have it fixed up).

Recently I was getting fed up with the problems I kept having with validating URLs, so I sat down and wrote this class which I’m pretty sure you’ll find both better and easier to use.

By: Monkey

Monkey — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:02:33 +0000

The regular expression just throws an error in FDT as the // in the string comments out the second half of the code on that line – any ideas?

Nice work by the way!

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:21:23 +0000

Hi.
I suppose there are a few ways you could go about this. One would be to mess around a bit with the actual
Yahoo Pipe that’s being used as a buffer. That link will take you straight to the source.

An easier way perhaps if you’re comfy with ActionScript is to simply add/subtract your offset to the timestamp in the RSS feed. Just get the time and cast it to

uints

and then do something along these lines:

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var currentTime:Date = new Date();
var utcHours:Number = currentTime.getUTCHours();
var aussieHours:Number = currentTime.getUTCHours() + 9;

XTrace.log("UTC: " + utcHours);
XTrace.log("Australia: " + aussieHours);

Sorry I can’t come up with a working example right now, but I’m sure you’ll figure it out.

By: William

William — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:36:22 +0000

Hey mate,

love this tutorial! Thanks a heap.

I have one small problem, the timestamp is not in the right timezone, as I live in Australia I’m actually 10 hours ahead.

With a bit of googling it appears I can’t do anything with the twitter backend and most websites showed php solutions.

Any ideas on your code on how to change the date? My actionscript (3 especially), is pretty intermediate.

Thanks for taking the time to read this comment.

Cheers William

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:00:41 +0000

Sure thing.
If you add a trace statement on line 41 so it reads:

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if(twitLoader.data){
tx = new XML(twitLoader.data);
trace(tx)
...

You’ll see the full XML loaded from the Yahoo Pipe. Then just parse the timestamp and send it over to your main class to display.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:54:19 +0000

I think most of the problems are because of the Twitter fail whale, but I can’t say for sure.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:49:17 +0000

Great I’ll try that. Thanks indeed.

On a different note, do you have frequent errors with the yahoo pipe…? At the moment the link (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=4b85031723ba7785e277add01b0169c5) you demonstrated above goes to an error page…

“Sorry, Unable to process request at this time — error 999.”

Am I missing something, or does this just happen?

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:41:17 +0000

This is a fantastic solution. I love it. Got it working after some fiddling…. I was wondering if there is a way to get the time stamp on entries?

Thanks