Syndication Panel Translations

We have created translated versions of the syndication panel for Action Script 3.0 (Flash CS3+) users (our AS2 API already contained this functionality). Make sure you grab the latest version of our AS3 API to take advantage of this. You can set the language using widget.syndication.setLang(language:String). Here the "language" parameter corresponds to the standardized language code for the given language. There are also two localized versions of English, for American and British English respectively. You can see the list of supported language codes in the code below. You can also retrieve a String of the language code using widget.syndication.getLang(). The current language is also stored inside the Flashvar/setting "lang".

import yourminis.api.IWidget; import flash.events.*; var widget:IWidget; addEventListener("widget-loaded",onWidgetLoaded); var languages:Object = new Object(); languages["cz"] = "Czech" languages["da"] = "Danish" languages["de"] = "German" languages["en"] = "English (American)" languages["en_us"] = "English (American)" languages["en_gb"] = "English (British)" languages["es"] = "Spanish" languages["fi"] = "Finnish" languages["fr"] = "French" languages["it"] = "Italian" languages["nl"] = "Dutch" languages["no"] = "Norwegian" languages["pl"] = "Polish" languages["sv"] = "Swedish" languages["tr"] = "Turkish" function onWidgetLoaded(evt:Event):void { widget.initWidget(300,250,0x000000); updateText(); widget.addEventListener(widget.DROPDOWN_LOADED,onDropDownLoaded); } function updateText() { widget.alert("Current Language: " + widget.syndication.getLang() + " - " + languages[widget.syndication.getLang()]); } function onDropDownLoaded(evt:Event):void { var s:String; for (s in languages) { widget.addDropDownItem(languages[s], s, myfunction); } } function myfunction (param:String) { widget.syndication.setLang(param); updateText(); }

Please let us know if you find any translations that are incorrect in the syndication panel!

New Facebook Actionscript Libraries

We have replaced our other Facebook dynamic library with the new apis that can be found here:

http://code.google.com/p/facebook-actionscript-api/

What does this mean as a yourminis developer? 

1. 1.  An officially supported library created by Facebook and Adobe that will be maintained with all of the latest Facebook APIs
2. 2.  An easier way to connect into Facebook when your widget is outside of Facebook (via Facebook Connect).  This is still under development on our end, but expect it to be available soon.  
3. 3.  Access to new APIs that were not supported with the last library.

For an example of how to set up a widget with the dynamically included facebook library, look here:

http://www.yourminis.com/developers/tutorials/as3/facebook.aspx

We are still working out some kinks so bear with us until we get this fully stabilized, but let us know in the developer forums what issues you are having.  At this time we only recommend using this library to connect while the widget is actually residing on Facebook, but feel free to experiment!

We have implemented a new (optional) way of exposing the syndication panel.  You will now have the ability to show destination sites for your widget on the front of your widget.  A menu bar can be aligned to the top or bottom of your widget to show these locations.  The benefit of this menu bar is that it allows one less click, and can show the most important destinations (as you choose) up front.  Implementing this feature is very easy -- once your widget is initialized, you simply call widget.syndication.initOverlay(), as shown below:

import yourminis.api.IWidget var widget:IWidget; addEventListener("widget-loaded",onWidgetLoaded); function onWidgetLoaded(evt:Event) { widget.initWidget(100,100,0x000000); widget.syndication.initOverlay("facebook","bebo","myspace"); }

As you can see, you can pass in a list of strings for destinations that you want to appear on the menu. Here is a full list of the possible strings you can use:

"addcontent" //copy embed code "aim" //AIM pages "bebo" //bebo.com "blogger" //blogger.com "desktop" //Adobe AIR "facebook" //facebook.com "freewebs" //webs.com "friendster" //friendster.com "google" //Google Start Page "hi5" //hi5.com "live" //live.com "mac" //Mac Dashboard "myaol" //myAOL "myspace" //myspace.com "netvibes" //netvibes.com "pageflakes" //pageflakes.com "sendtofriend" //Email to Friend "typepad" //typepad.com "vista" //Vista Sidebar "yahoo" //Yahoo Widgets

If you would like to customize the appearance and alignment of this component, you can call widget.syndication.styleOverlay(), as show below:

import yourminis.api.IWidget var widget:IWidget; addEventListener("widget-loaded",onWidgetLoaded); function onWidgetLoaded(evt:Event) { widget.initWidget(100,100,0x000000); widget.syndication.initOverlay("facebook","bebo","myspace"); widget.syndication.styleOverlay( true, //alignToTop:Boolean=false -- if true, component is aligned to top true, //autoHide:Boolean=false -- if true, component only appears on mouseover 0xFF0000, //backgroundColor:uint=0 -- color of component background 0x00FF00, //outlineColor:uint=0 -- color of component outline 0.5, //backgroundAlpha:Number=0.9 -- alpha value of component background null //textFormat:TextFormat=null -- TextFormat of component text ); }

That's it! You can view an example of the "Sliver" syndication panel here.