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Getting tweets from Twitter: Tweets Class

November 30th, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes, Apps

Last week I discovered BackTweets.com which allows you to search their database of Twitter links.   BackTweets.com also offers developers access to their Twitter data through an api.  The Tweets Class uses this api to collect a set of data based on a user specified search string.   The data is then displayed with other Designer Toolkit classes [...]

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Transferring Data from XML to Actionscript 3

November 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Tutorials

In this post, I’ll cover the transfer of data stored in an external XML file into a Flash Actionscript 3 application. In Actionscript 3, handling XML files has been vastly improved – and simplified – with two new classes: the XML and the XMLList classes.

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Using Arrays in Actionscript 3: Part 2 – Associative Arrays

November 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Tutorials

Associative arrays are the more sophisticated sibling of integer-indexed arrays. Associative arrays, in addition to having integer-indexed elements, also have named data defined within each indexed element. So that the first element, at index=0, might contain data such as firstname: “Joseph”, lastname: “Jones” and employeeID: 345421. Associative arrays serve as extremely [...]

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