Channel 9 Forums - The Sandbox - Twitula http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - The Sandbox - Twitula http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Fri, 24 May 2013 05:44:44 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 05:44:44 GMT Rev9 4 -4 -1 The Sandbox - Twitula This is the Twitter client I wrote earlier in the year for Windows Mobile (specifically, Windows Mobile Classic and Professional, to use the new official names that convey no useful information whatsoever). That is, Windows Mobile for touch screen devices, or what we used to call Pocket PC. Unfortunately the "People I follow" option has not worked since the Twitter developers did something back in I think August that caused the https://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml call to handle authentication incorrectly, with the effect that it now always returns a "not found" error. This bug has been notified on the Twitter forum and commented on by numerous people, but they haven't done anything about it. Consequently I decided not to do any further work with what is obviously an unstable and unsupported API.
Other people may have more patience than me and feel inclined to implement a work around to deal with this issue and whichever others arise subsequently - those people might find this code of some use.
Anyone who sees that I render every word in a tweet separately will no doubt conclude that I'm insane, stupid or both: it was my solution to the problem of rendering links correctly along with ordinary text for any arbitrary input string, while positioning everything (more or less) correctly. I never liked it, but it did the trick and wasn't as slow as I'd feared ("Good enough for free", was my thought, to be honest).
  I do sincerely apologise for the lack of comments: I was writing the code for myself and yes, I confess, largely making it up as I went along (see again under "Good enough for free"). I do feel guilty however about the lack of explanatory comments.
Despite all that there may be bits and pieces here that provide some people with useful ideas. I'm pretty pleased with the overall look (not so much with having to use interop code to achieve it), and I think the "finger-swipey stuff" is at least a good start. Speaking of fingers, I made a conscious effort to be "finger-friendly" (and the swipey bit was part of that, as were the admittedly somewhat garish buttons on the dialogs), although my main objective with this program was to break away from the Godawful VB4-ish look that the Compact Framework tends to impose on us (I'd like to do something similar for Diarist, but since the input controls occupy almost the entire display area I haven't worked out how as yet).

PS. If you've actually used Twitula and had never noticed that there was integrated help, don't spend too much time slapping your forehead. Anyone could make that mistake.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/435437-Twitula/435437#435437 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:02:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/435437-Twitula/435437#435437 Kevin Daly 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Kevin Daly/Discussions/RSS The Sandbox - Twitula OK, no interest but that's fair.
Anyway, the Twitter guys have finally fixed the API, so the Twitula functionality that was previously not working is now working again.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/435437-Twitula/49bd65a3f6d045e596149dea00fc85bf#49bd65a3f6d045e596149dea00fc85bf Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:08:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/435437-Twitula/49bd65a3f6d045e596149dea00fc85bf#49bd65a3f6d045e596149dea00fc85bf Kevin Daly 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Kevin Daly/Discussions/RSS The Sandbox - Twitula Test

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/435437-Twitula/56dff38698b64db6971c9dea00fc8604#56dff38698b64db6971c9dea00fc8604 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:37:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/435437-Twitula/56dff38698b64db6971c9dea00fc8604#56dff38698b64db6971c9dea00fc8604 Tom Schultz 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/tschultz/Discussions/RSS The Sandbox - Twitula I just downloaded Twitula to my xv6800, and it looks beautiful, but its got some serious glitches...for example, it cuts all my messages down to less that 100 characters!   Also, it only shows the last 9 messages on the friends or public timeline, which is far too few for any serious twittering.

I had to remove it from my phone for these reasons, but if you ever update it or correct these problems let me know. 

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