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Authentication on Facebook

King_DuckZ · 2012-09-06T12:01:16

Hello everybody, I need to write some code to make our game perform some actions on Facebook. The game is multiplatform (iOS, MacOSX, Win32, Linux) and is mainly written in c++. We can do http and https communication, and it's ok to invoke platform-specific functions such as ShellExecute from win32. I've searched the net fo days now, and it seems to me I need a so called "access token" in order to do anything. The question is: how do I get such token? I've seen thousands of examples in php and .net, but all of them are under the assumption the game is a browser game. Our game is a stand-alone binary. Any help on how to get a signed request, an access token, a code or whatever is needed would be very helpful. As far as I can tell, we need access to the user's friends list and the ability to post pictures on his behalf.

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Started by King_DuckZ September 04, 2012 06:23 PM

9 comments, last by swiftcoder 11 years, 7 months ago

swiftcoder

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September 06, 2012 12:01 PM

As swiftcoder pointed out, the suggested way is to embed a browser directly inside my app, which is just not doable.

Why is it not feasible?

Drop-in webkit implementations abound (Awesomium and Berkelium, off the top of my head), and if you are not cross-platform you should be able to embed Internet Explorer pretty easily as well.

Tristam MacDonald. Ex-BigTech Software Engineer. Future farmer. [https://trist.am]

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