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Aion Flash Twitter Widget v1.0

October 9th, 2009

I am working on a more robust flash application for a final project in my AS3 class this semester, but I figured I’d test the waters with one of the many features my project includes – Twitter. I have had a Twitter account for over a year, but only recently got back into it, all thanks to the folks at Aion. Now I’m hooked… thanks guys.

Anyways, thanks to a tutorial found here, Creating a Twitter Widget in Flash, I was able to import Tweets into Flash (never done this type of thing before). I whipped this up in a few hours this afternoon and thought I’d share it with everyone and ask for any feedback. Now granted, this is a very very basic widget, so please keep that in mind. I might expand on this if I get enough people yelling at me.

Features that I will add in final project (and this one):

pictures (avatars)
drop down for name selection
date of post
make urls linkable

Also, clicking on the Shugo will take you to the currently active Twitter feed owner.

Add the following code to your site or blog:

<object style="width: 200px; height: 600px;" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="200" height="600" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.daraberry.com/aion-mini-portal/aion-twitter.swf" /><param name="align" value="right" /><param name="hspace" value="10" /><embed style="width: 200px; height: 600px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200" height="600" src="http://www.daraberry.com/aion-mini-portal/aion-twitter.swf"></embed></object>