{"id":278,"date":"2009-04-06T01:31:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T14:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-04-06T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T14:34:40","slug":"mchumby-interface-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/mchumby-interface-design\/","title":{"rendered":"MChumby – Interface Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Test<\/a>
Test of revised layout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few interesting tidbits were learned from the experiments :-<\/p>\n

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

    A bit of background and a demo video of the widget on the Chumby after the break.<\/p>\n

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    The last post<\/a> describes my resurrection of a two year old project.\u00a0 Here’s a super short summary with many pictures, photos and videos!<\/p>\n

    The original layout<\/h2>\n
    \"Original<\/a>
    Original concept layout...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Original layout prototyped<\/h2>\n
    \"Test<\/a>
    Test of original layout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    I thought the speed gauge didn’t look too bad but I got convinced by a friend to redesign the layout.\u00a0 Plus I really didn’t know why I needed a song name on the display or the blinker indicators…<\/p>\n

    The revised layout<\/h2>\n
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    \"Revised<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

    Revised layout legend\/summary :-<\/p>\n