But is it possible within flex to have a feed that acts live such as this i.e. it is constantly changing? I thought within flex you could only load data upon some sort of event such as the click of a button?
The user can refresh their tweets simply by clicking the load tweets button again but may it be better to have a refresh function constantly running and refreshing the feed every couple of seconds to keep it essentially 'live'? I thought something like this would take up memory/loading times though. The ability to post tweets to twitter from within an app does sound like a great idea though. I wouldn't know where to start on this though. Do you know of any examples on the net that show this being done that I could implement into my own? Cheers for your help though. These are good ideas. --- In [email protected], "turbo_vb" <timh...@...> wrote: > > Hi James, > > If your application automatically displays new tweets, those created after > the initial load, than yes; that would be considered "live". If however its > just taking a snapshot, then no. A starting point would be to "refresh" the > tweets. Having the ability to post tweets, and see them instantly show up, > would also make it more live. Other ideas would be IM, chat, or other > real-time activities that involve the course; like live test scoring, or > something. > > -TH > > --- In [email protected], "James" <garymoorcroft_ict@> wrote: > > > > I've previously made an air application for my university course and my > > tutor has suggested that I incorporate more "live data" into it. One of the > > ways he suggested was to include a twitter feed. I have no experience of > > using feeds within flex but I think I've managed to get one in. > > > > How it works is when users type in their twitter id and click a load button > > all of their tweets are displayed within a repeater component. They can > > then click a save button to save their twitter id and whenever they start > > the application in the future their tweets will load into the repeater > > component automatically as long as their name has been saved. > > > > This may seem like silly question but does what I've described constitute a > > 'live twitter feed' which is what I've been asked to include or am I > > missing something? > > >
