This entry was posted by Aaron West on July 2, 2007 at 4:08 PM. It was filed in the following categories: twitterAIR, Adobe AIR, Flex. It has been viewed 34611 times and has 17 comments.
I've had a couple days to play with the app. I like it a lot. The UI is very clean... tis verr nice. Verr nice indeedy.
Any way to resize this bad boy?
Not at the moment Robert. Due to the custom skinning with the background image I'm still looking into the possibility of allowing resizing. twitterAIR was the first fully custom skin in Flex I've done so I'm working through the request.
I certainly think the ability to resize will make the app "feel" better so I hope to get it done.
Hi Markus, I've actually been having major performance problems for quite some time due to the shared server I host with. I'm investigating new hosting options. By the way, what is "EV?"
Rarr, nevermind.. EV = Evan Williams from Twitter fame.
It looks great, but used font doesn't display cyrillic characters, is it possible to fix that?
Nomad, it may be possible. I'm embedding a font into the SWF and I do have control over what characters of the font are embedded. Currently, I'm embedding only a-z, A-Z, and 0-9. The real question is whether the font I'm using has Cyrillic characters available. If it does I could embed them. I'll see what's available and I might add the Cyrillic characters if they don't overly bloat twitterAIR in terms of file size.
Aaron...at most you'd be adding an extra 20-30k. That's probably accepable so that our cyrillic typing friends can use this thingy.
Although very cool, I dont think this is the goal that Adobe wants to accomplish with Flex right? I dont really see Flex as a solution for building flash websites. Feels more native for Applications.
Alexander, what do you mean by "flash websites?" twitterAIR is an AIR application built with Flex 3, which is one of the intentions behind Flex, to power AIR apps.
Now, as far as building Flash-based Web sites using purely Flex, I would tend to agree. I don't see a point in building an entire Web site in Flex. Entire Web applications however, are a different story. Flex is perfect for that.
Great App, Show uz the Code !!!!
Aaron, Beautiful app. But I don't see a tab -- or any method for that matter -- to see my Replies. Perhaps I am just being dense.
@Maurice Yea you're right. I never built the ability to view replies to messages. It's a core feature of twitter that my app is lacking. Glad you like what is there though.