Thanks for all the helpful replies. I spent a good few hours last night trying to follow some tutorials on the web without much success. I thought I would start with the real basics and just try and add a hello world iFrame web page that literally just displayed the words "hello world".
>From what I read it appeared I needed to use a SSL host to host the index.html page so I signed up for Amazon Web Services. Unfortunately this did not work as apparently the way Facebook accessed the page involves sending data via post and this resulted in an error when using Amazon Web Services hosted file. Very surprised it is not more straightforward and also how bad the documentation is considering how huge Facebook is. Possibly I am trying to run before I am not really too familiar with how Facebook works. In all honesty, I am not even sure where a game would appear on a facebook page even if I did manage to figure it out:) P -----Original Message----- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) Sent: 30 May 2012 20:45 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Converting a flash game to facebook app If by dinosaur you mean you haven't done Facebook since the REST API was retired, transitioning to Graph isn't a big deal if you're not rolling your own but using one of the SDKs - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sdks/ or the AS3 SDK Sydney pointed to. If you mean you're completely new to Facebook development it can be a huge pain, but you'll save at least a few days if you go into it ignoring all documentation Facebook provides other than the reference: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ Google will find blog posts by people who give step by step instructions for registering your account as a developer, setting up an app, setting up a SDK and giving you source code of a functioning app to look at. On 5/30/12 1:43 PM, "Hans Wichman" <hans.wich...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Paul, I faced the same problem a while ago and found the whole facebook mumbojumbo pretty hard to wrap my head around, opengraphs, graph api etc. The project was cancelled so I was off the hook, but I spent about a week reading facebook's docs none the wiser, so I don't exactly share Sidney's experience. I didn't have a specific goal they wanted me to complete so that made it harder as well, but still. I did find some very good books specifically on flash games on facebook at amazon. regards H On 30-5-2012 18:17, Paul Steven wrote: > I am a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to facebook and have been asked > to turn a flash game into a facebook app. > > Before I make a decision on whether I can take on this job I wanted a > quick heads up on how complex a process is to do this? > > Thanks in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ _ _ Erik Mattheis | Weber Shandwick P: (952) 346.6610 M: (612) 377.2272 _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
