Comments on: Post to TwitPic from Adobe AIR

By: Chris Black | blackcj.com: Post to TwitPic from Flash / Flex

Chris Black | blackcj.com: Post to TwitPic from Flash / Flex — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:41:35 +0000

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By: Chris Black

Chris Black — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:53:56 +0000

This post is for Adobe AIR which uses localhost. On the web, Flash content requires a crossdomain.xml file for accessing files on another server. TwitPic only allows requests coming from their server. You will need a proxy on your local server in order to get around this. Please see my post on setting up a Twitter proxy:

http://www.blackcj.com/blog/2008/10/04/flexfeed-integrate-twitter-rss-feeds-into-flex/

Setting up a TwitPic proxy would be similar. For more information on policy files please read this article:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9_security.html

By: Vinicius Oliviera Santos

Vinicius Oliviera Santos — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:36:50 +0000

My Aplication works in flash ide, but dont work in browser .
Why ?

By: Filipe Cunha

Filipe Cunha — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:24:22 +0000

It´s alive!!!!!

It´s exactly waht I´m looking for. Thanks so much for your help!

By: Chris Black

Chris Black — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:14:08 +0000

Filipe,

Check out my comment to Shammi above. I’ve got another blog post that has source code that should be exactly what you’re looking for. Please feel free to contact me if that post doesn’t answer your question.

Cheers,

Chris

By: Filipe Cunha

Filipe Cunha — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:51:46 +0000

Hi Chris,

I´m developing a FlashPlayer app that use TwitPic API, but I need pass MovieClip as”media”. I tried to turn this MovieClip into ByteArray (through BitmapData and JPGEncoder) and pass “media” in URLVariables, but a got this response:

Can you help me?

Nice work with this post!!

By: Chris Black

Chris Black — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:21:38 +0000

Shammi,

You’ll need to take advantage of the UploadPostHelper class to upload display objects to TwitPic. Luckily I had a blog post already in the works on this topic that I finished up as a response to your question. Please see http://www.blackcj.com/blog/2010/07/05/send-display-objects-to-php-as-images/ for more details and sample code.

-Chris

By: shammi

shammi — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:19:03 +0000

hi chris

in a flash web application how do i make it work
urlVars.username = TWITTER_USERNAME;
urlVars.password = TWITTER_PASSWORD;

urlVars.media = byteArray; // this is a binnaty array of an movieClip
urlVars.message = “New tweet”;
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost”);
urlRequest.data = urlVars;
urlRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;

// create the image loader & send the image to the server;
var urlLoader : URLLoader = new URLLoader();
//urlLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
urlLoader.load( urlRequest );

but this doesn’t seem to do anything i can use filereference for web applications but how to i convert bytearray to filereference.

Please suggest.

By: Chris Black

Chris Black — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:04:56 +0000

If the Flex and PHP are on the same domain you shouldn’t have any cross domain issues regardless of whether your path is relative or absolute. I personally prefer absolute URLs so the SWF can be moved around on the site without breaking the API calls. Relative URLs work for smaller sites that you are confident won’t be changed around much. Just to clarify, if you would like to use this example in Flex on the web you will want to communicate like this: Flex web app – PHP on your server – TwitPic API. You can not currently connect directly to the TwitPic API from a Flex web app because they do not have a policy file. If your running this through Adobe AIR (like in the example above) you can ignore this comment. Cheers.

By: consevenup

consevenup — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:51:06 +0000

hello.

you shoud use relative URLs. put your file.php in the root folder of your site (that’s to say, in yourdomain/file.php) and use in flex this url: /file.php

it worked for me.

regards