{"id":449,"date":"2009-12-11T14:41:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2009-12-11T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:41:44","slug":"graphics-class-and-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Graphics Class and Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\n[SWF(width = 700, height=700, frameRate=12)]\r\nvar cmds:Array = [];\r\n\r\nvar loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();\r\nvar req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search.atom");\r\nvar vars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();\r\nvars.q = "#asgraph";\r\n\/\/ results per page\r\nvars.rpp = "100";\r\nvars.page = 1;\r\n\r\nreq.data = vars;\r\nreq.method = URLRequestMethod.GET;\r\n\r\nloader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);\r\nloader.load(req);\r\n\r\nvar txt:TextField = TextField(addChild(new TextField()));\r\ntxt.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat("_sans", 12);\r\nwith (txt){ x=10, y=10, autoSize="left"; }\r\ntxt.htmlText = "loading...";\r\n\r\nfunction onLoaded(evt:Event):void{\r\n       removeChild(txt);\r\n   var searchData:XML = new XML(loader.data);\r\n   var atom:Namespace = searchData.namespace("");\r\n\r\n   var leng:int = searchData.atom::entry.length() -1;\r\n  for (var i:int = leng; i>=0; i--){\r\n       var cmd:String =\r\nsearchData.atom::entry[i].atom::title.toString().replace(\/#asgraph\/g,\r\n"");\r\n      \/\/ added this to ignore words starting with @\r\n      cmd = cmd.replace(\/@(w+)\/g, "");\r\n       cmds.push(cmd);\r\n   }\r\n\r\n       var time:Timer = new Timer(100, cmds.length);\r\n       time.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onTick);\r\n   time.start();\r\n}\r\nfunction onTick(evt:TimerEvent):void{\r\n       render(parseFunctions(cmds[evt.target.currentCount - 1]));\r\n       graphics.endFill();\r\n       graphics.lineStyle();\r\n}\r\n\r\n\/\/ parse and run Graphics class commands\r\nfunction parseFunctions(dat:String):Array{\r\n   var a:Array = dat.split(";") ;\r\n   for (var i:int = 0; i<a.length-1; i++){\r\n       a[i] = a[i].split(\/()|(|)\/g);\r\n       var f:String = a[i][0] = a[i][0].replace(\/s\/g,"");\r\n       a[i] = a[i].splice(0, a[i].length - 1);\r\n       if (a[i].length> 1){\r\n        a[i] = a[i][1].split(",");\r\n        a[i].unshift(f);\r\n       }\r\n   }\r\n   return a.splice(0,a.length - 1);\r\n}\r\nfunction render(p:Array):void {\r\n   for (var i:int = 0; i<p.length; i++) {\r\n       try{\r\n       graphics[p[i][0]].apply(graphics,p[i].splice(1));\r\n       }catch(e:Error){};\r\n   }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
This is a simple idea I had awhile back… This snippet searches twitter for the #asgraph hashtag and if it finds standard Graphics class method calls it renders them.<\/p>\n
So if you tweet something likethis :<\/p>\n
\r\n#asgraph beginFill(0xFF); drawCircle(200,200,10); \r\n<\/pre>\n
it will get rendered into the below swf (you’ll need to refresh to see your tweet get rendered):<\/p>\n
[SWF]https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/wp-content\/asgraph.swf, 700, 700[\/SWF]<\/p>\n
Here is a direct link to the swf<\/a>