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Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690362
Pages 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Developing Flash Virtual World 2. Installing the Servers 3. Getting Familiar with SmartFoxServer 4. Creating Map and Ground in Isometric View 5. Creating Avatars 6. Walking Around the World 7. Creating Buildings and Environments in the Virtual World 8. Creating an Inventory System 9. Communicating with Other Players 10. Interacting with NPC 11. Designing Quests 12. Social Community 13. Deploying and Maintaining Flash Virtual World

Update the Facebook status


Facebook status is a place where we can share what is in our mind or what we are doing. People like to know what their friends are doing or thinking lately. We have implemented something similar in our buddy list system so that players can share a line of their latest status. We can extend that field to Facebook status.

In order to update the Facebook status via the API, we need to grant an extra permission from the players.

We grant the permission of using the user info and friends data when the user joins the virtual world in Facebook for the first time. However, that permission does not allow the application to publish further information. We need to grant an extended permission. There are several extended permissions where we can ask the users to authorize the application to perform. Most of the extended permissions are related to automatically content posting and reading via API such as status, news, and photo albums. A detailed document of the available extended...

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