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Working a 70 hour week dampened my enthusiasm for the MChumby but I managed to scrape a couple of hours today to try my hand with HaXe + Flash to prototype the Chumby Interface.

Test of revised layout

A few interesting tidbits were learned from the experiments :-

1. HaXe + Geany are great for developing flash widgets for the Chumby
2. Gnash doesn’t render the same as Linux Adobe Flash
3. Chumby renders the same as Adobe Flash
4. Text vertical alignment in flash is crap

A bit of background and a demo video of the widget on the Chumby after the break.

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