[Flashr] simple search

[Kelvin Luck]

Hi,

I have no idea why pics would often disappear. I think that it is more
likely to be something in your code than something with flickr, I've
done this sort of things lots before and never had disappearing pics...
That said flickr does seem to go through rough patches every now and
again so maybe you were experiencing one of them?

There is no way to get a random selection of photos either. The best you
can do is request a random page of images. Or request a page of, say,
100 images and choose 20 randomly from them to getInfo for and display.
This obviously has the downside of requiring a bit more bandwidth
although the stuff returned by photosSearch is fairly concise so this
might not be too much of a problem... I guess it depends on your target
audiences' connection speed and how quick you want your app to respond...

Cheers,

Kelvin :)

Gareth Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> i am having some problems with the simple search example.. i get a nice 
> grid of photos, but the pics often disappear, is this because the 
> connection to flickr fails? also is it possible to return a random 
> selection of photos, rather than the first 20.
>  
> many thanks.
> G
>