Twitter: add high score in tweet

jaspermeijrink · May 2012

Hi there,
I'm developing an iPhone game. You can get a highscore.
I want to get that highscore in the twitter-text. The code for the twitter-text is:

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if ([TWTweetComposeViewController canSendTweet])
{
TWTweetComposeViewController *tweetSheet = [[TWTweetComposeViewController alloc] init];
[tweetSheet setInitialText:@"My Topscore is: **** in this game!];

[self presentModalViewController:tweetSheet animated:YES];
}
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The code to see the highscore in an alert-view:

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if (score > highscore) {
highscore = score;
NSString *nssHighscore = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", highscore];
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
initWithTitle:@"Topscore"
message:nssHighscore
delegate:nil
cancelButtonTitle:@"Okay"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
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I'm using xCode 4.3.2
Please help me solve this problem! Thanks!

Domele · May 2012

Okay so use the same technique you used to display the highscore in the alert view to display it in a tweet. Hint: You'll be using this line:


NSString *nssHighscore = [NSString stringWithFormat:@\"%i\", highscore];

Another hint:


int i = 5;
NSString *aString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@\"The value of int i = %i\"];
//aString, if printed, will be \"The value of int i = 5\"

jaspermeijrink · May 2012

Hi Domele,

Thanks for your answer. The problem is: I'm a beginner and i made this game with the help of many tutorials. I don't know where i have to paste that code to get the high score (%i ??) into the tweet. What can i do?

sathyapriya · May 2012

thanks for your idea.. If i have any further doubts will ask you definitely..

Domele;430473 said:
Okay so use the same technique you used to display the highscore in the alert view to display it in a tweet. Hint: You'll be sing this line:
NSString *nssHighscore = [NSString stringWithFormat:@\"%i\", highscore];
Another hint:
int i = 5;
NSString *aString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@\"The value of int i = %i\"];
//aString, if printed, will be \"The value of int i = 5\"

jaspermeijrink · May 2012

How did u used this code?

Domele · May 2012

Okay, you need to take a step back. I'm like 99% sure if you understood what your code was doing, you'd be able to figure this out. Copying and pasting code is not a good way to learn and you aren't going to be able to make a quality app like that.

I'm not going to tell you explicitly what to change in your code unless you want to pay me.


if ([TWTweetComposeViewController canSendTweet])
{
TWTweetComposeViewController *tweetSheet = [[TWTweetComposeViewController alloc] init];
[tweetSheet setInitialText:@\"My Topscore is: **** in this game!];


[self presentModalViewController:tweetSheet animated:YES];
}

This code basically says, if the device can tweet, create a tweet compose view controller, set the initial tweet text to "My Topscore is: **** in this game!", and then present the view controller.


if (score > highscore) {
highscore = score;
NSString *nssHighscore = [NSString stringWithFormat:@\"%i\", highscore];
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
initWithTitle:@\"Topscore\"
message:nssHighscore
delegate:nil
cancelButtonTitle:@\"Okay\"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];

This says if score is greater than highscore, the new highscore is the current score. Then, create a string that has %i (a format specifier) in it and then replace that with the string value of 'highscore'. Finally, create an alert that has the new string we created as the message and okay as the only button.

Hopefully from all that, you can figure out how to get your highscore into a tweet.

And one last final clue, this:


[tweetSheet setInitialText:@\"My Topscore is: **** in this game!];

is the same as this:


NSString *initialTweetText = @\"My Topscore is: **** in this game!\"
[tweetSheet setInitialText:initialTweetText];

And remember that I can do this:


int i = 5;
NSString *aString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@\"The value of int i = %i\"];
//aString, if printed, will be \"The value of int i = 5\"

jaspermeijrink · May 2012

Yes, fixt it!

jaspermeijrink · May 2012

Is there also a way to disable the text input in my tweet? The user can now send a tweet with the highscore, but is still able to change the number of the highscore!

Domele · May 2012

Nope, you cannot ban the user from changing it.

jaspermeijrink · May 2012

Domele;432050 said:
Nope, you cannot ban the user from changing it.

Ahw, damn....
And disable the keyboard? Now people can change the highscore. Not fair in front of the 'good-players'.

Domele · May 2012

Why do you care what score people tweet? It's just to show off to their friends and everyone knows anyone can tweet "I got xxx points on xxx" on their own. Use a leaderboard to show accurate highscores.

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