This is building off my previous post and adding a scrollbar to the textfield if there are too may tweets to fit in it. You don’t need to load data from a HTTPService but this is helpful for loading data when you don’t know its length ahead of time.
Twitter Search (380.7 KiB, 10 hits)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 | package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.events.Event; import flash.text.TextField; import flash.text.TextFormat; import fl.controls.UIScrollBar; //FLEX classes import mx.rpc.http.HTTPService; import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent; import mx.collections.ArrayCollection; public class TwitterSearch extends MovieClip { private var _twitterService:HTTPService = new HTTPService(); private var _arr:ArrayCollection; private var _twitterMsgs_txt:TextField = new TextField(); public function TwitterSearch ():void{ addEventListener (Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init, false, 0, true); } private function init (e:Event):void { //Load Twitter Feed _twitterService.url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=as3'; _twitterService.send(); _twitterService.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, onTwitterResult, false, 0, true); } private function onTwitterResult(e:ResultEvent): void { _arr = e.result.feed.entry as ArrayCollection; //trace(_arr.length); var tweets:String; for (var i:int = 0;i < _arr.length;i++) { //trace(_arr[i].title); tweets += _arr[i].title + 'n'; } //trace(tweets); var textFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); textFormat.size = 16; textFormat.color = 0xFFFFFF; _twitterMsgs_txt.defaultTextFormat = textFormat; _twitterMsgs_txt.border = true; _twitterMsgs_txt.borderColor = 0xFFFFFF; _twitterMsgs_txt.background = true; _twitterMsgs_txt.backgroundColor = 0x333333; _twitterMsgs_txt.width = 860; _twitterMsgs_txt.height = 100; _twitterMsgs_txt.mouseEnabled = true; _twitterMsgs_txt.multiline = true; _twitterMsgs_txt.wordWrap = true; _twitterMsgs_txt.selectable = true; _twitterMsgs_txt.x = 50; _twitterMsgs_txt.y = 50; _twitterMsgs_txt.text = tweets; //_twitterMsgs_txt.blendMode = BlendMode.LAYER; addChild (_twitterMsgs_txt); //Create the scrollBar instance if necessary if (_twitterMsgs_txt.textHeight > _twitterMsgs_txt.height) { var scrollBar:UIScrollBar = new UIScrollBar(); scrollBar.scrollTarget = _twitterMsgs_txt; //assign the target of the scrollBar to your textfield scrollBar.height = _twitterMsgs_txt.height; //make the height the same as the textfield scrollBar.move(_twitterMsgs_txt.x + _twitterMsgs_txt.width, _twitterMsgs_txt.y); //Move the scrollbar to the righthand side addChild(scrollBar); scrollBar.update(); } } } } |
