thanks

d

I found your site though Kelvin’s link, and just wanted to say I like how you’ve set up the ability to limit search results to requiring a second tag (or third, or nth…) I love this API, so much to play with.

You may also like Flappr, an implementation of Flashr that I made: at http://bcdef.org/flappr

- Buck

Glad to hear it’s working in Firefox and 8.5. My favorite kind of bug, just goes away.

Thanks for the post,

doug

Agreed. Extending would have been a better choice. (rather lazy on my part)

I’ll join the list.

thanks,

d

Re. your changes… For the first one I would suggest extending FlickrResponseListener rather than editing the class itself… This is how I would normally envisage it being used… Hopefully over the christmas holidays I’ll get a chance to put together some demo code which shows how I’d suggest usinging Flashr in more complex situations…

And it’s funny that you mentioned the second one… Just the other day I made a change to the Flashr core – here is the post with the details that I made to the Flashr mailing list…

Please let me know what you think of this change… Also please join the mailing list where you can let me know about bits of Flashr which I can improve and about any bugs you find,

Cheers,

Kelvin :)

P.S. Thanks for the kind words about Flashr :)

i’m seeing it through firefox 1.5 under win xp and flash player 8.5 and it seems to work well

anyway, good app. i like the way you show related tags.

best!

I’m glad you like findr. Please link to it.

I was planning on contacting you after another round of bug fixes/updates (there are a couple things that are bugging me). As I mentioned in my post, your API was a great help.

I made 2 small changes to your API btw. The first is a bit of a kluge – I wanted the event listeners to fire events to a class (the Model), so I added a property to the ResponseListener…

//djm add oct so i can make call backs to classes easily
public var myClass:Object;

(it should probably be a setter – oh well)

That way I could do things like…

class Model …..
_flickrResponseListener = new FlickrResponseListener ();
_flickrResponseListener.myClass = this;
_flickrResponseListener.onError = function (o:Object)
{
this.myClass.gotFlickrError (o);
};

And have the errors (and other responses) handled in the Findr Model.

The other change I made was to Flickr.as. I added extra properties to the photos array. All I really wanted was number of photos per tag – but, I grabbed all the extra attributes…

in method (line 2682)…

private function _parsePhotoXml(px:XMLNode):Array

I added at line 2700…

//djm add 01dec2005 – i want these attributes – really just the total # of pics
var atts:Object=px.attributes;
for (var p in atts){
photos[p]=atts[p];
}
//end djm add

That enabled me to display total number of photos for a tag above the thumbs. That was actually kind of a kluge as well as I don’t really like to add properties to Arrays (not a big deal, but, kind of feels wrong and adds properties to for-in loops).

Anyway, I was really impressed with the API. The fact that I could quickly make the second change with a minimum of effort speaks to how well you wrote it. Documentation was great too.

Thanks for the comment,

Doug

Can I link to it from the Flashr homepage as an example of something made with Flashr?

Cheers,

Kelvin :)