Facebook Developers

Have you fixed everyones broken allocations now?

good work! Looking forward to the feed feature, keep us posted.

URL like http://localhost/app/ or http://localhost/app/default.aspx is not validated as valid urls, My app is still in developer mode. 
How i will debug my code now?????

Last edited by eMan (2008-12-16 23:33:52)

I am having this same problem and it's causing me a tremendous amount of problems. In the past we could select the Application Type with the new interface I can't seem to find a way to create a Destop application

Any help would be appreciated

I can no longer debug my code because I cannot set Callback URL to start with something like "http://localhost:2063/......"

Please change this urgently, you are costing me time and money!

I had my hands on facebook developing 2 days ago and I must say I was a bit deluded by the documentation (except for the reference). This new form for adding applications is tricky, things are confused and very very badly explained. Now, I didn't have any problems understanding the structures, the architecture and the language but this way to manage the applications is a total waste of time. Informations in the form are have no coherence with the common IT language. It could appear well organized and well explained to those who develop FB apps since some time, but, sure, not to those who start. Some example:
Where the form asks for the Callback URL, You are not specifying what kind of URL is required. A URL can be http://www.mysite.com/ or http://www.mysite.com/myfacebookapps/root/ or http://www.mysite.com/myfacebookapps/ro … index.php. Facebook developers team should suggest if they want the root or just the base URL, without forcing people to crawl forums around the world. In the Canvas page URL settings, why don't You tell something more on what the developer should write in? Why don't You distinguish the optional fields by required ones? I really can't understand what is the minimum set of fields to fill to have my application work.
So, dear FB Dev Team, You have my high respect for Your great work. FBML and other languages are clear, making an application for FB is easy, but this new form to add applications is a bottleneck. Believe me, if this remains as it is, lot of people will renounce developing on FB.

Last edited by Stitch (2009-01-02 07:11:44)

You aren't the only one who has found this all very confusing.

The documentation has always been behind and left up to the community to make up for where they've essentially not done it. It is disappointing, and what is annoying is they often make essentially unnecessary changes which just adds to the confusion of the little documentation there is.

softy wrote:

Maybe it's just me, but I can't find the place to edit developers of the application?

Softy,

You should be able to edit the developers on the Basic page of Settings, underneath the icon selections.

Cheers,

Matt Trainer

I am new to Facebook development and have been trying to get a sample desktop application working.

I have spent the last 2 days experimenting with settings and have discovered that the problem is that any new application id I create is automatically created as a website application.

From the research I have done, it would seem that in the old version, when you created a new app it let you choose between either DESKTOP or WEBSITE.

Can you please advise me how I either change my existing APP to be a DESKTOP app or how I can create a new application id with the type set to DESKTOP.

I am very keen to start developing but without the ability to create a DESKTOP application id I have no way to proceed.

Your help with this issue will be much appreciated, and I am sure the other people that have noticed this issue will be equally pleased to learn how to resolve it.

Thanks

Last edited by WHLSoft (2009-01-05 10:24:30)

There's a way to work around the 'http://localhost:port/" problem:

Just enter 'http://127.0.0.1:port/' instead of 'http://localhost:port/'. The 127.0.0.1 means nothing else than localhost, but IP's are accepted by the form validation.

Greetings,
Stops

can someone tell me how can I launch the old application settings editor ? thanks in advance.

Hello all,

Thank you for the suggestions and feedback. We'll take these into consideration as we roll out more improvements.

Cheers,

Matt Trainer