Category Archives: 4D

Simon and I met up to discuss how to get over the final hurdle of my 4D – getting the YouTube player I have built in Flash to accept the dynamic video URLs from the Yahoo Pipe. I couldn’t get … Continue reading →

My Project was intended to use BBC RSS data to create a video newsreel. The idea of auto editing should be a form of citizen journalism. The project used Yahoo Pipes, a tool which interacts and edits RSS feeds. Through … Continue reading →

I’ve managed to fix the error, by calling a function inside my video actionscript, when the timer event ticks. The code for this is called in response to the timer event: youtubevideo.HeadlineChange (); This function within my video movieclip, youtubevideo, … Continue reading →

On the final hurdle, I’m getting errors. I can’t access the headline from inside the video code… so I can’t change the video as my headline changes. Aaargh! /*———————Error Messages——————— 1120: Access of undefined property t. 1120: Access of undefined … Continue reading →

Loaded Feed This is the result of the trace to see if my Yahoo Pipe RSS has loaded correctly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Nrk2uy87E http://www.youtube.com/show?p=ioqt1IdznWs&s=3 http://www.youtube.com/show/globaltreasures http://www.youtube.com/news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoHbJwEi24k http://www.youtube.com/user/IranContraScumDid911 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ourclBYzuS0 http://www.youtube.com/user/KamikazeKoscki http://www.youtube.com/movies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V1QLUREY9k http://www.youtube.com/user/ntvuganda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlf_GAf_l5A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfvFayHczCg http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=FYz7AHtKfEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRXlBeIfn3g http://www.youtube.com/user/Leave99Productions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upDSu-xqDCA http://www.youtube.com/user/healthyinformation http://www.youtube.com/user/LennarOnline http://www.youtube.com/user/nyevita http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feinD1ySaNg … Continue reading →

This is the final piece of actionscript, and the one I struggled the most on. It will take some explaining… but here goes! Security.allowDomain(“www.youtube.com”,”http://s.ytimg.com”, “http://pipes.yahoo.com”); I have already blogged about my security sandbox issues. This line of code was the … Continue reading →

Here is the code I have used to display the system time in my Flash Document. I feel this adds to the authenticity of thew project, most news programs show the time. Using the system timer ensures it is accurate … Continue reading →

Here is the actionscript I am using: import flash.xml.*; import flash.net.*; import flash.system.*; import flash.text.*; import caurina.transitions.Tweener; The above series of imports allows Flash to read XML, from the web, read in the system time from the local machine, display … Continue reading →

I’ve managed to get my pipe outputting an RSS. This shows the YouTube video title and video link for each BBC news story. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b586d73664d960245555fb6153c36275&_render=rss All that is left to do now, is read in the RSS into Flash, and display … Continue reading →