[orkut-developer] requestSendMessage not working?

2010-05-14 Thread David Hill
I am building an app/gadget that needs to be able to send a message to friends of the current user. So I'm doing something like this: opensocial.requestSendMessage(selected_friend_id, "This is the message", function() {}); The only thing I get back from this call, however, is this error: b.getF

[orkut-developer] 3-legged oauth question

2010-04-05 Thread David Hill
Hoping someone here is familiar with the opensocial gem for Ruby and can help me figure out how to do this. I need to do 3-legged auth for an app I'm writing. I've found some example code (like here: http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-ruby-client/wiki/GettingStarted) of how to connect to Orkut t

[orkut-developer] gadget versioning

2009-03-18 Thread David Wilson
Hi Is it possible to update the name of the gadget.xml once it has been submitted? Im pondering versioning and caching at the moment,, and would like to be able to put an indefinite cache header on the gadget, then change its name to version 2 when it gets updated. Is this and option? If not,

[orkut-developer] Re: app engine signed request

2009-03-18 Thread David Wilson
there somewhere in the actual oauth code that i need to mod? On Mar 9, 1:07 pm, Arne Roomann-Kurrik wrote: > Hi David, > >    How are you generating the signature base string to validate the > request?  When orkut signs the request, it will use http:// public address>/etc - if you

[orkut-developer] Re: Procedure for having paid users

2009-03-16 Thread David Wilson
gt; On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:44 PM, David Wilson > > > wrote: > > > > hi, we have our own currency system, tied to paypal, already > > > developed. So my question is really (like Sanjay), what is the process > > > to get permission to deploy this type of app o

[orkut-developer] Re: Flash variable problem

2009-03-16 Thread David Wilson
this works for me: gadgets.flash.embedFlash(flashUrl, "flashcontainer", 9, { id: 'flashAppId', width: '765', height:'1500', allowScriptAccess: 'always', flashvars: 'example=foo'}); then in flex: var example:String = Application.application.parameters.example; or a movie clip: var example:S

[orkut-developer] Re: Using Flash in OS Templates

2009-03-12 Thread David Wilson
hi, http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/c0b5a4e9beb8b06b/7bb7af8630554e44?lnk=gst&q=flash+templates#7bb7af8630554e44 On Mar 12, 1:05 pm, Mayank M wrote: > This pagehttp://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=OpenSocial_Templates > says that there is no support f

[orkut-developer] Re: templates and flash

2009-03-10 Thread David Wilson
moment our profile app gets a json string from the persistent store, then pulls images from our server accordingly. On Mar 9, 10:08 pm, Vijaya wrote: > Hi David, > We currently have not implemented the template-solution for embedding > flash content in the profile view, but we are work

[orkut-developer] Re: Procedure for having paid users

2009-03-10 Thread David Wilson
hi, we have our own currency system, tied to paypal, already developed. So my question is really (like Sanjay), what is the process to get permission to deploy this type of app on Orkut, so we are not breaking the developer terms? On Mar 9, 10:47 pm, Vijaya wrote: > Hi, > Sorry, we do not have

[orkut-developer] templates and flash

2009-03-09 Thread David Wilson
them selves and customise a part of their profile. Is this a temporary glitch or will there never be any flash content in the profile view? I noticed BuddyPoke still has flash displayed in the profile, did it have its Flex content examined and deemed ok? If so can we do the same? ekk! David

[orkut-developer] Re: app engine signed request

2009-03-08 Thread David Wilson
now back to my original question, has anyone successfully signed an orkut makerequest call to a local appengine dev server? On Mar 8, 10:56 am, David Wilson wrote: > hi, sanjay, > > you can set the dev server to accept connections externally by giving > the command line

[orkut-developer] Re: app engine signed request

2009-03-08 Thread David Wilson
hi, sanjay, you can set the dev server to accept connections externally by giving the command line argument of --address=0.0.0.0 Now you can connct to the dev sever via [your-ip]:8080/ If you are on a dynamic ip connection use somthing like http://www.dyndns.com/ to give you an address that wi

[orkut-developer] Re: Procedure for having paid users

2009-03-08 Thread David Wilson
Im am also very interested in this as we wish to deploy an application that has a virtual currancy system in it that can be topped up with micropayments. Evidently there are other apps that already have this system, are they just going ahead without permission or agreement, or is this done durin

[orkut-developer] Re: makerequest error detection

2009-03-08 Thread David Wilson
Right! thanks for the info. So what is the general design pattern for detecting bad server calls using make request? Something like returning an error string that i can detect in the response.text? On Mar 5, 12:00 pm, Aakash Bapna wrote: > Hi David, > > The response_object.error

[orkut-developer] makerequest error detection

2009-03-05 Thread David Wilson
my server side? I ask because im setting the response code to 500, but this does not cause anything to be in the error array. thanks David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer

[orkut-developer] Re: app engine signed request

2009-03-05 Thread David Wilson
thanks for the reply! this is identical code to what im using, which makes me think its something to do with how im working locally. How do you connect to your dev server when working locally from orkut? On Mar 4, 11:12 pm, Sanjay Patel wrote: > http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/OAuthAuthentic

[orkut-developer] app engine signed request

2009-03-04 Thread David Wilson
anyone have some insight to why this is? I’m using code identical to what’s presented here: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/appengine-0.8.html#signing Local development is run though a reverse ssh tunnel to a public address on port 8090. Thanks David (im going to cross post this

[orkut-developer] appengine signed request

2009-03-04 Thread David Wilson
some insite to why this is? Im using code identical to whats presented here: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/appengine-0.8.html#signing Local developemnt is run though a reverse ssh tunnel to a public address on port 8090. Thanks David

[orkut-developer] payment solutions for micro payments

2009-02-04 Thread David Wilson
Hi, As Orkut's user base is concentrated in India and Brazil, what payment solutions are people using to allow frictionless micro payments for in game currency? paymo has sms coverage coming soon.. mobillcash gives you sms payments in India but not Brazil. zong does not cover either. daopay has

[orkut-developer] Re: debug javascript

2008-12-18 Thread David Wilson
Ok thanks! ill check it out. On Dec 18, 7:49 am, Vijaya wrote: > If you're using Firefox as your browser, you can download 'Firebug' > (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843) > which is a useful tool to debug the javascript in your apps. --~--~-~--~~~-

[orkut-developer] Re: bad donuts on prod.sandbox

2008-12-18 Thread David Wilson
Thanks for the prompt reply :) (really great free support!) On Dec 18, 7:47 am, Vijaya wrote: > prod.sandbox is down and the orkut team is looking into it. I'll post > an update once it's been resolved. > Meanwhile please continue to use sandbox.orkut to test your apps. > > Sorry for the inconv

[orkut-developer] Re: bad donuts on prod.sandbox

2008-12-17 Thread David Wilson
x it sooner. > > > Dinesh > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM, David Wilson < > > david.wil...@entertainmentcloud.com> wrote: > > >> apologies for not getting back sooner, i had dell tec here today > >> fixing my laptop. > > >>

[orkut-developer] Re: bad donuts on prod.sandbox

2008-12-17 Thread David Wilson
apologies for not getting back sooner, i had dell tec here today fixing my laptop. here's the url: http://entcloud.gotdns.org:8080/xml/main.xml On Dec 17, 6:48 am, Vijaya wrote: > Could you please include the URL to your app xml? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rece

[orkut-developer] debug javascript

2008-12-16 Thread David Wilson
Is there a robust way to debug client side javascript when being used in a gadget? I'm currently making a flex app to be used in an openscocial gadget, served out of appengine. This allows me the use eclipse and flex builder, giving me breakpoint/ step though/visual code errors on server side p

[orkut-developer] bad donuts on prod.sandbox

2008-12-16 Thread David Wilson
Hi, Im currently having a few development issues when trying to test my flex app on the prod.sandbox. I develop locally using an app engine devserver which i make accessible publicly though a dynamic dsn forwarder to my local machine. I have reduced the gadget to a test form and is available he

[orkut-developer] Re: registerOnLoadHandler and other problems.

2008-12-16 Thread David Wilson
breakpoint/stepthough/see errors on server side python code and client side as3. but the javascript is my weak link. any thoughts? (problem 2) still persists btw) On Dec 16, 7:00 pm, David Wilson wrote: > problem 1) seems to have fixed it self again, but problem 2) still > persists. > > On

[orkut-developer] Re: registerOnLoadHandler and other problems.

2008-12-16 Thread David Wilson
problem 1) seems to have fixed it self again, but problem 2) still persists. On Dec 16, 4:33 pm, "David Wilson (entertainment cloud)" wrote: > Hi, > > Im currently having a few development issues when trying to test my > flex app on the sandbox and prod.sandbox. >

[orkut-developer] registerOnLoadHandler and other problems.

2008-12-16 Thread David Wilson (entertainment cloud)
Hi, Im currently having a few development issues when trying to test my flex app on the sandbox and prod.sandbox. I develop locally using an app engine devserver which i make accessible publicly though a dynamic dsn forwarder to my local machine. I have reduced the gadget to a test form and is

[orkut-developer] Re: Unable to retrieve gadget xml. HTTP error 500

2008-12-04 Thread David Wilson (entertainment cloud)
Ive just noticed it works fine with prod.sandbox.orkut.com, odd huh.. On Dec 4, 10:51 am, "David Wilson (entertainment cloud)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could you define what you mean by public domain? In this case the file > is sereved out of a local app engine devse

[orkut-developer] Re: Unable to retrieve gadget xml. HTTP error 500

2008-12-04 Thread David Wilson (entertainment cloud)
: appId=297000854660 On Dec 4, 4:56 am, Vijaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > In order for the app to be installed on sandbox.orkut, the app xml > must be hosted on a public domain site. > If your dev machine is on the public domain and you're still having a >

[orkut-developer] Unable to retrieve gadget xml. HTTP error 500

2008-12-03 Thread David Wilson (entertainment cloud)
Hello, Ive been working locally for a few weeks, but now I've come back to testing in the sandbox my app never loads now and always gives me the error: 'Unable to retrieve gadget xml. HTTP error 500' The xml is being served off a local web server and is accessible though a browser on machines

[orkut-developer] Re: thousands of friends, user selection.

2008-11-28 Thread David Wilson (entertainment cloud)
Is it considered bad form/possible to pre-fetch all of the users friends on app initialisation? this seems like a large data set, that may not be used in the app interaction, but would reduce lag when the picker was needed. On Nov 28, 9:32 am, Vijaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently the

[orkut-developer] thousands of friends, user selection.

2008-11-27 Thread David Wilson (entertainment cloud)
Hi, If a user has thousands of friends, what's the best way to handle user selection of one of them? I understand how to page though them, but this seems poor if the user wants a name near the end of the alphabet. I could implement an ajaxy picker, but this requires all the friend data to be f

[orkut-developer] A portuguese guide for beginners in opensocial.

2008-06-01 Thread David
Hello guys, as I could note there are many brazilians in Orkut, and we have a lot of developers here too, so made a blog to translate and provide helpfull informations to portuguese-speaking developers, to access this blog visit brasilopensocial.blogspot.com , I've inserted portuguese subtitles on

[orkut-developer] Re: requestNavigateTo() throwing in common018.js

2008-04-24 Thread David Cann
This is fixed! Thanks, Orkut. http://orkutdeveloper.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-directory-on-sandbox.html -d On Apr 24, 9:51 am, mattes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I have that problem, too. Navigating to the canvas view works, > navigating to the profile view sometimes renders an invalid

[orkut-developer] Re: requestNavigateTo() throwing in common018.js

2008-04-24 Thread David Cann
I'm getting this "ta_c.gadgets.JSON" error when using requestNavigateTo() too. Anyone find a solution? -d On Apr 23, 10:58 am, Navaneeth Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are right. requestNavigateTo() does not seem to work. It takes me to > an invalid page. > > -Navaneeth > > Danny at