Flash Apps

Background/document color of inline Flash

David — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:00:56 GMT

When I test my app as an I-frame, the document color is displayed correctly. When I test it as an Inline Flash, the background is white (might be transparent). Is there a way to allow the document color to show or to set the background color of an inline Flash? I've attempted to do this by setting background color with CSS in the apps profile, but this seems to have no effect.

Thanks,

David Ray

What is the best program for making an app for myspace?

King Scorpio — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:53:26 GMT

I want to make my own app like Mobsters, Mobster overdrive, outworld and all the other ones like that but I need to know What the best program to use to make one of those kind of apps so if anyone know a good one then please send me a link to the download site.

Myspace REST notifications via Flash

Gary — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:32:27 GMT

I wrote a Myspace REST library that I'm hoping to use to make all REST calls directly from flash and bypassing a backend script such as .net or PHP. I have the GET calls working no problem, but when attempting to implement the POST notifications call it fails. I've been comparing my call using the OAUTH tool and get the same signature and URI as the OAUTH tool. When my Flash app makes a call, I track the request/response using Charles Web Debugging Proxy and can see that the request seems well-formed, but I don't see a response. When tracing, I can see that there is a response, but as far as I can tell, the server HTTP response code is 0? Has anybody else been able to make a REST notifications call directly from Flash?

MySpace API

Митрофанова — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:08:47 GMT

I am just starting work with MySpace and I am afraid I haven't clear understanding MySpace API. I would like to create my own application (not for MySpace) where user can login as MySpace user and post notification to his MySpace wall ( or his MySpace home page) and see his/her friend's post. I am already do something similar for FaceBook. Is it possible with MySpace API?

The Different Ways of Making a Flash MySpace App

Gordon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:29:35 GMT

There seems to be a lot of confusion on how to make a flash app. I am going to put fourth my understanding and can somone please correct me if I am wrong ? So as I understand it, there are 3 different ways of making a flash myspace app: 1) Use inline flash. In this case MySpace adds the open social parameters as flash vars to the flash app. In this case, you can use the as3 library to interface with the mypace api. 2) Use an IFrame. In this case you can make calls to your own server which can interact with the myspace servers via the REST or open social interface. 3) Use the HTML/Javascript source option and add the markup for the object and embed tags. In this case you can use the ExternalInterface to access the open social javascript APIs. This case allows for the most features since you can use javascript-only functionality such as postTo. Can someone elaborate on the advantages between methods 1, 2, and 3? Also, in case 3, can you use the official as3 library as an alternative to using ExternalInterface or is that the only route? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Gordon

FLASH CONTACT FORM

Jeanelle — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:13:10 GMT

HOW DO I MAKE A FLASH CONTACT FORM WORK ON MYSPACE? I HAVE EVERYTHING SET WITH MY FTP SUCH AS MY .PHP AND .SWF.....CAN ANYONE HELP WITH CODE TO MAKE THIS WORK ON MY MYSPACE PAGE......THE FLASH SWF IS ON MY PAGE AT WWW.MYSPACE.COM/JTSANTOS...THANKS

Highscores?

Victor — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:29:09 GMT

Hi, I have a question on really just how highscores would work with apps. I have a flash file on my game, and I want to be able to save their highscore with myspace, can I do that or will I have to have an outside database? If I can do it with myspace, could you show me an example? Thanks, Ciber

my app icon seems be deleted automatically

YU — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:17:43 GMT

Hi,

I create a very simple flash app, using inline flash; when I click the "My Apps" after I finish it, the icon on the left side disappeared, and has been replaced by a deleted image, would you please check it,OAuth Consumer Key: http://www.myspace.com/489738566

Thanks,

Mike

flash max size for upload

Digitech Software — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:23:55 GMT

My flash app has a lot of embedded fonts and images. When I upload at around 2.7 MB (less embedded fonts), I am okay. However, when I upload at around 4.7 MB (I just include the embedded fonts) I get a "myspace error has occurred and and the myspace dev team will be notified" error. Thanks.

Using HTML/JavaScript Source: My loader cannot find file URL on my server

Morph — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:50:40 GMT

When I upload my swf using Using HTML/JavaScript Source on the Canvas Surface, my swf cannot load

other swfs I have in my "../res/" directory. If I go to the main swf directly, it works. My release also works well in my machine.

When I run my application from MySpace I get an error #203: URL not found. URL: ../res/base.swf.

The path is relative and the file is there relative to my main swf.

Can anyone help?

EDIT: I discovered that the problem is in my html!! When I load a swf that does not load anything else, it works fine. But when I load a swf that load another swf it throws that error. The code is this:

What am I doing wrong here?

Flash embeding problem with gadgets.flash

Lynne — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:31:47 GMT

All,

I can not seem to use the gadgets.flash.embed method to embed a Flash in my MySpace app. I use:

gadgets.flash.embedCachedFlash(swfUrl, "movie", {id: flexAppId, width: 500, height
: 500 });

While I can use the swfobject Javascript library as a work around I want to know why MySpace doesn't support this. I thought this was part of OpenSocial. Can anyone clarify? I get an error:

TypeError: gadgets.flash is undefined

Thanks,

Lynne

Example Error, or FlashDevelop Error??

Michael — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:49:50 GMT

When i download the example opensocial app, open it in FlashDevelop, compile it, upload it, and view it, it shows a popup box that says "An Error occurred: Error #2060"

Flex/flash Html and more

mike — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:57:32 GMT

Hi everybody,

I'm really excited by the new myspace and opensocial apps.
I'm really at the begin, I would like to build a simple app.

I would build a simple app that list myfriends into a box made with flex.
Although I've been program in c++, php, c#, I've just at the begin into flex and ECMA language.

By the way I would like, in canvas space,
make an HTML, for display my banner (in a near future), with display inside this flash app.

So I know that I know that

I can retrive friends data by calling from "ExternalInterface" a javascript function,
I see that I can upload a swf file, but if I upload a html too.

There's a way to do that, for example if you look at BuddyPoke I see a html file which display banner, and some javascript function, maybe called from flash, and swf file.

Thanks

flash upload

Ghilli — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:32:11 GMT

I uploaded my flash file(load.swf) in flickr.com

Can i use the flash file uploaded url in myspace open social apps.

Forced to make a new account

cjschrissouth — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:53:27 GMT

Hi, I’m a Myspace Developer and I was going to make my flash app available on myspace. When i tried to create it, it tells me to put in a username and password. Can i use my current Myspace ID to make apps, and not have to make a new one? If you want I can send you a picture of whats happening.

Access OpenSocial data from iFrame

Justin Kennedy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:06:28 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone give me an idea about how you can access the MySpace OpenSocial APi from an iFrame app using flash?

Every call I make at the moment from my iFrame app generates a security error due to the domain my iFrame app is on not being allowed access to http://api.myspace.com because of this crossdomain file http://api.myspace.com/crossdomain.xml.

Loading external xml into inline swf

eincerto — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:36:36 GMT

Hey guys, I pulled my app from publish pending because I realised that I may not be allowed to embed an external swf onto the canvas and profile surfaces.

My unpublished app works perfectly on my end if embedding an swf from an exernal domain is allowed because I load in an external xml file which also rests on the same domain as the swf - so I only ever need to worry about adding myspacecdn.com to our crossdomain xml policy file and all works seamlessly.

BUT, since my applicaiton code is written using javascript / html I need to know if I will be denied publishing if my swf is not inline?

Under this scenario, I'm running into trouble using an inline swf to call an xml file from another domain with URLRequest. This is how I'm embedding the swf:

The problem is the xml should populate the player with data, but running from the myspace servers, the swf doesnt load when i preview it on the profile surface. If any one has some thoughts to help me out I'd really appreciate it as my eyes have been staring at my monitor for a very long time.

A NEW BEING FOR ME

THEMAN — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:39:47 GMT

I WAS ON THIKING ABOUT A NEW THAT WHOULD REDEFIN ALL OF MYSPACE APP'S GAMES MY GAME IS KILL ALL MAN KIND AND EVEY THING THAT'S GETS IN YOUR WAY MAKE GANG'S AND BUISSIENS

Passing a user specific user chosen variable to flash app

eincerto — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:40:42 GMT

Hey guys, I am new to both MySpace and MySpace Development. I have been pouring over all the MySpace dev documentation and must admit my knowledge in this area is murky, but is starting to get clearer. I have written an actionscript 3 swf movie that needs a user-specific variable passed to it - easily done on standard pages by passing a flashvars to the movie. The whole movie hinges on the variable to define how the movie looks; it is only a 4 digit string. My question is thus, can my app ask the user to input the 4 digit code and have it stay stored on myspace's end to be retrieved whenever the app is called up. If this is possible, can anyone help point me in a general direction to figure this out? In theory I can see an alternate solution of hosting my own database that links the 4 digit code to the MySpace Id and then spit that back out - but since it is only 4 digits long i see this solution right now as excessive. Thanks in advance!!!!

FlashVars: opensocial_token, opensocial_surface, opensocial_consumer_key

Wizzard — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:09:18 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to embed flash in osapp with <object><embed> tags ( and/or SWFObject), how can I know opensocial_surface and opensocial_consumer_key values so I can pass them to my flash with FlashVars?

I found out I can get opensocial_token from opensocial.Container.get().osToken_ is there any simmilar way for opensocial_surface and opensocial_consumer_key?

Thanks

Getting owner or viewers friends. (AS3)

Johan RD — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:35:04 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to display the friends of the owner or viewer in my flex app, but having no luck.

I have looked at a number of examples but cant get it to work. For example http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=OpenSocial_ActionScript3_Library#A_Note_on_Response_Items

my code has the following functions:
--------
        public function makeRequest():void
        {
            MySpaceContainer.instance.init(osToken, osSurface);
            var dr:DataRequest = MySpaceContainer.instance.newDataRequest();
            dr.add(dr.newFetchPeopleRequest("VIEWER_FRIENDS"), "get_friends");
            dr.send(handleReq);
            log("Request sent");
        }

        public function handleReq(resp:DataResponse):void
        {
            log("In handleReq:");
            if( resp.hadError() )
                log("There was an error in the response.");
            else
                log("success");
        }
-----------

(log is a function to populate a vbox with debug info).

I keep getting "There was an error in the response."

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Johan

My Space API / FetchPersonRequest

face — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:47:09 GMT

hi there,

I was trying to build a widget at myspace.com by using Flex 3, I have read the doc at http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=Official_OpenSocial_ActionScript3_Library

I got an error null for the fields object, I did some invesgations with the code, it looks like the INITcouldn't be set successfully ==>>> MySpaceContainer.instance.init(osToken, osSurfaceName);

You may view the code at http://www.privatepaste.com/441BSlgBV7 as well.

Does anyone had this error before? I appreciate for any hints.

Thank you

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
                import mx.collections.Grouping;
            import MyOpenSpace.*
            import opensocial.*

            public function getViewer():void
            {
            var osToken:String = Application.application.parameters.openSocial_token;
                var osSurfaceName:String = Application.application.parameters.openSocial_surface;

            MySpaceContainer.instance.init(osToken, osSurfaceName);

            var dr:MSDataRequest = opensocial.newDataRequest() as MyOpenSpace.MSDataRequest;
            dr.add(dr.newFetchPersonRequest('VIEWER', ['BOOKS']), 'ViewerPerson');
            dr.send(onLoadPerson);

        }

        public function onLoadPerson(dataResponse:DataResponse):void
        {
            var person:Person = opensocial.Person(dataResponse.get('ViewerPerson').getData());
            var fields:Object = person.getFields();
        }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:Button label="Get Person" click="getViewer();"/>

</mx:Application>

loadvars.send

FMXstudio — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:01:34 GMT

My application is based upon copy and paste code that a user puts into their bio. I noticed that the allowNetworking parameter was set to 'internal' which restricted which flash api's could be used. According to flash documentation, only four api's are blocked when this parameter is set to 'internal', loadvars.send is not one of them. So why would my call to loadvars.send be blocked.

as code:

var vars:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
vars.songs = stb;
vars.action = 'pstoreadd';
vars.send('http://www.fmxstudio.com/process.php', '_blank', 'POST');

SWF and Python data exchange which protection?

mike — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:50:02 GMT

Dear dudes, I write a simply class that writes and reads throught a "REST" api (writen by me) between SWF object and python (JSON answer). Well I make also a Crypter based on password, but I have fear that someone can decompile my SWF and read the password. So the question: There's a way to transmit data between apps SWF and python in crypted and safe way? Some suggestion, thanks

Myspace support chat toolbar app(like facebook)?

Ryan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:56:31 GMT

Does Myspace support a person making a chat toolbar IM app? You know how facebook has a chat IM toolbar that displays along the bottom of every facebook page when users login?, well I'm just wondering if an app for Myspace could be made like this? If the current app policy doesn't allow this, you should change it. So a person could make a Flash chat toolbar IM app and after users install it, it will always display at the bottom of all Myspace pages once they login, and all their friends will be added to the IM list.

By the way, is it possible to add a File transfer feature to a Flash chat toolbar IM app? Or doesn't flash support File transfers of .jpeg,.bmp,.doc, .zip etc?