Polling the twitter service every 60 seconds (refresh) would be a way that you could get updates semi-automatically. You're not using RTMP, so you're never going to be really live. HTTPService calls are asynchronous, so there isn't much overhead just listening to a Timer(). For extending the functionality, here's a couple links. http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2009/03/simple_twitter_client_in_flex.htm <http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2009/03/simple_twitter_client_in_flex.ht\ ml> l http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation <http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation> -TH
--- In [email protected], "James" <garymoorcroft_...@...> wrote: > > 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" TimHoff@ 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? > > > > > >
