How to use facebook to invite friend with custom text

nbtthief · May 12, 2016, 8:11am

Hi everyone,

I try to invite a friend with a custom text. For Ex: Hi friends i just got #highscore in this game, can you beat me!

With the normal inviteFriends(…), i cannot do that, so i used the second method in sdk, use requestInvitableFriends() then inviteFriendsWithInviteIds(). It can send friend invitation but it don’t contain my wanted text but the last text from the first method.

In sdkbox doc, it mentioned “only available for games with a canvas implementation for the Facebook application. The canvas must be defined but doesn’t need to how any web content” <- what’s this mean? i try to host a simple webpage on google drive to test this out, but it seems not working.

Do you have any ideas?

nite · May 12, 2016, 11:07pm

@yinjimmy can you help?

nbtthief · May 13, 2016, 7:07am

hi @yinjimmy, can you help me with this, can we send invite with predefined text?

yinjimmy · May 13, 2016, 8:31am

I’m checking on this.

nbtthief · May 16, 2016, 1:56am

Hi @yinjimmy,

Do our sdkbox facebook plugin support “game request” dialog?

Thanks for your reading

yinjimmy · May 16, 2016, 2:39am

Yes, it supports GameRequestDialog.

nbtthief · May 16, 2016, 3:42am

Hi @yinjimmy,

Sorry to wasting your time, but it seems i cannot find GameRequestDialog, sdkbox contains only FBShareInfo. In PluginFacebook, there is only member function dialog(FBShareInfo *). I tried to update the newest version of sdkbox and facebook sdk using “sdkbox import facebook”, but still don’t have that feature, do you have any ideas?

BTW, do you find out how to send invite with user’s best score (predefined text) or captured screenshot, i’m trying to use Game Request feature to bypass this problem
Thanks in advance,

P/S: FYI, i’m using cocos2d-x version 3.10

yinjimmy · May 16, 2016, 10:34am

FBSDKGameRequestDialog was used in inviteFriendsWithInviteIds api.

nbtthief · May 16, 2016, 12:35pm

Ow, that’s it! Then, it mean we cannot set a predefined text, right?

Once more thing i want to ask you, when using graph api api(…) how can we get the response from that method?. I suppose the last parameter, but nothing happen. For Ex:

string response = “nothing”;
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::FBAPIParam params;
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::api(“/me”, “GET”, params, response);
log(“response %s”, response.c_str()); // still “nothing”

yinjimmy · May 16, 2016, 12:46pm

github.com

sdkbox/sdkbox-sample-facebook/blob/master/cpp/Classes/HelloWorldScene.cpp#L339


_inviteDialog->addChild(bgU);


auto bgB = Sprite::create("ui/dropdownBottom.png");
auto heightB = bgB->getContentSize().height;
bgB->setScaleX(scaleX);
bgB->setPosition(0, -height/2 + heightB/2);
_inviteDialog->addChild(bgB);


auto bgM = Sprite::create("ui/dropdownMid.png");
auto heigtM = bgM->getContentSize().height;
bgM->setScaleX(scaleX);
auto pos = bgU->getPosition().y - heightT/2;
while (true) {
    if (pos < -height/2 + heightB/2) {
        break;
    }
    auto clone = Sprite::createWithSpriteFrame(bgM->getSpriteFrame());
    clone->setScaleX(scaleX);
    clone->setPosition(0, pos - heigtM/2);
    _inviteDialog->addChild(clone);
    pos -= heigtM;

The tag == “nothing” for above code.

yinjimmy · May 16, 2016, 1:13pm

how about this code?

requestInvitableFriends

void HelloWorld::onRequestInvitableFriends( const sdkbox::FBInvitableFriendsInfo& fi ) {
    std::vector<std::string> ids;
    for (auto it = fi.begin(); it != fi.end(); ++it) {
        ids.push_back(it->getUserId());
    }
    sdkbox::PluginFacebook::inviteFriendsWithInviteIds(ids, "your title", "Hi friends i just got #1000 in this game, can you beat me!");
}

nbtthief · May 17, 2016, 10:53am

Thank you, i should have read sample carefully before asking question about api function, Sorry

I still need to test invite function, it doesn’t work like i want (still cannot show predefined text), i will inform you later, thanks very much

nbtthief · May 18, 2016, 3:07am

Hi, it seems like i cannot get it work as i want. I even implement FBSDKGameRequestDialog to use send a request, but still there is no custom message attached to it. Is that mean Facebook do not support this or do i have to set up something particularly?