I'm working on a widget that will use the high score functions that Chumby Industries have put in place.
(see http://wiki.chumby.com/mediawiki/index. … re_keeper)

The widget must use the environmental variable (one *given* to the widget by the chumby network) '_chumby_widget_instance_id' to communicate with the scorekeeper. Fair enough...

But, when developing my widget I notice that the Virtual Chumby (that I develop with, mostly so I don't have to leave my PC to test / debug) does not seem to support the variable. I say this because I have run the exact same test widget on Virtual Chumby and my real one. Real one show the variable value on screen, virtual one does not.

Is this a limitation of the virtual chumby ? Or has someone misspelled this variable name in the virtual chumby code (lots of underscores - easy to miss one) ? And are you aware of other environmental variables that do not work on Virtual Chumby ?

This isn't going to prevent any development for me, it just makes it less convenient in my writing / testing of widgets. BUT, if my logic has followed this properly, this also means that any game using scorekeeper *will not work* on Virtual Chumby (well, the high score part, at least). Did I reason that right ?

edit: <additional after more research>
I find that the Chumball game, which implements a high score table (and presumably using the 'scorekeeper' model), does *not* show scores when played on a virtual chumby. Proof of my suggestion above ?

Also, is there anyone who has more info (examples ?) on the actionscript calls to the scorekeeper, and the parsing of the returned data ? My experiments aren't getting me anywhere at the moment.