Nope, I haven't made a gift yet. I only had about 8 or 9 items total. Now I have 3.

Then the theif needs to be toned down a bit. That's way too much to loose all at once. I hope this isn't related to that game I played with another Chumbyland user.

Lost at least 5 items, all at once. It wasn't because of the game, thank goodness. But I can't think of why so many items disappeared so fast. I've been giving them away with friend requests, but I didn't give them away that fast. I was down to just 2 items for a few hours there. I even lost my cool Pumpkin!

I think that I am addicted to Chumbyland! I love it! One thing that I wish we could do.... Sorry, it is getting close to Christmas! Well, it would be very cool if you could send your chum to another chums home rather than wait to get there. (on the chance that you see it also) Everything else is fantastic! I have set up my backgrounds, played games with my chums, crafted, won the lottery (woohoo!), and am waiting to catch myself in a chumversation. Excellent widget! Thank you for making my day!

Twinkle

Hi

First of all, cool widget develephant, with excellent growth potential

I also support the idea of following your chum to wherever it goes, however, would that affect the loot pickup? - i.e. people can steal your loot that is at your home (tho I have not had loot/treasure chests drop from sky yet, I don't want the stuff pinched by passers-by )

Also, another idea - to have a central forum (or multiple when the population grows) where all chums can gather and play games to win off each other items (expanded games like chess, checkers etc), or even betting items on sports matches (probably NFL, MLB, EPL, NRL, AFL etc etc )

Another idea - to add chums by username in addition to adding those who are at your home or location owners - and having a directory of all Chumbyland users with search function.

To a bug I may be experiencing - I am currently having refresh issues ; I need to change to another widget then back to move from packing to travelling or travelling to home -- I did, at the beginning, have Chumbyland pinned, then set it to run forever, then now custom 600s. Sometimes I forget and keep Chumbyland pinned which may have corrupted the installation...

Do I have to delete and then reinstall? Would I lose my items and settings, or is the profile saved by Chumby ID tied with a unique Chumbyland key? (I am using v1.8.5.2)

There may be another bug on the gochumby.com/cl configuration tool - when I go to Your Chum settings, and exit that menu before the icons load, the icons then are overlayed on the screen when they load

Now to another issue - there are concerns out there posted by other users regarding mature content. There may be concern for the customisation of backgrounds and items - people may upload inappropriate pictures for certain age groups - there should be explicit rules regarding customisation -- you might not want to end up like Spore, with all the penis avatars/monsters/creatures etc -- maybe having the customisations pass through an authorisation process first.

O well.

@MaxSMoke777 - nice cartoon castle background btw; I have got some customised desktop backgrounds from 2desktop.com, check out the pretty Aurora Australis ; I also saw a Japanese user have an manga background - brings the grand total to 2 customisations I have encountered. /edit: I've now seen a Disney style castle and a pretty mountain landscape background

Thx once again develephant for this amazing widget. 5 stars.

Regards

blobby

(P.S. if you don't mind, could you create a music tuner and metronome widget please? It would be much appreciated. http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=3107)

I am having the same refresh issues. I am starting to worry that I am spending too much time clicking into the control panel and am going to wear my chumby out. (I have a mean game going on with my office mate!)

The gochumby.com/cl issue happened to me also, but that was about a week ago. I think that I was hitting the back button instead of main menu. I don't know!

I am also concerned about backgrounds that would not be appropriate. I would have to delete the widget in case my children would happen upon it, and also work appropriateness. Yikes!

What are your chum's names - maybe those with uploaded backgrounds could network to get to one anothers homes (for lack of a better word). Also, I have yet to have a chumversation. I am always seen talking, yes, to myself!

Max, your castle was incredible!!!!! very cool! I loooovvvee Chumbyland!

I have to say thank you, too.  I've made friends, seen new backgrounds (you gotta keep checking!) played games.  I look forward to see what messages I have!

Who would have thought?!?!?!

As far as nice to haves: it would be nice to be able to configure the widget to display the chum-cam instead of you home.  That way you wouldn't miss the backgrounds you are at.

But, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Can the accelerometer be used to show the Chumby Cam? That might be a cool way to quickly show you where your Chum is at.  How about, say, turning the chumby upside down for a second? And then putting it back upright would turn off the cam.

A Chumbyland user had asked about a method to create a transparent PNG.  I thought I would post my reply as it may help others.

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I myself use Photoshop, but I know not everyone has that program.  The other option is a site called http://pixlr.com/app/

I will just give a quick example of how to get a transparent .PNG and if you need more detail let me know.

Once you are at the pixlr application, start by selecting the menu options File->New

Put in your size.  Most icons I work with are 32 by 32.  Your final file size will be 16x16 but that process can happen in the config tool on gochumby.com.  But I do recommend starting with an image with equal sides.  Make sure to check the "Transparent" checkbox before clicking OK.

You should now have a new blank image with a transparent "background" layer in the Layers window to the right (most likely called Layer 0).

Now in the menu choose File->Open and locate the icon image you want to work with.  This will open in a new window.  With the window selected choose from the menu Edit->Select All.  Then choose Edit->Copy.

Click back on your "Blank" image and choose Edit->Paste from the menu.  This will create a new layer in the Layers window with your image (you can close the original one now if you wish).

Now decide what you want to be transparent.  Usually it is the white or black background, but you can experiment with whatever you like.  Do this by choosing the "Wand" tool from the Tools windows on the left.  It looks like a wand with a pink star at the end.

When you select the wand tool, at the top you will see an area for the "Tolerance", make sure to set this to about 90.  Leave everything else as is.

With the wand tool, select the areas of color you want to be transparent.  To select multiple areas use hold the "Shift" key while clicking with the wand tool.  It may be helpful to use the Zoom tool to select the areas you want.  When you have what you want selected, from the menu choose Edit->Cut.

You should now see a "checker board" pattern in the areas that will show up as transparent (if not then something went wrong somewhere).  From the menu select File->Save.  Make sure "Png" is selected, give it a name, and click OK.

You now have the perfect PNG for Chumbyland!

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It is important to note that what you see in the Crafting Tool is what you will get in Chumbyland.  So if you see a white background, that will indeed show up, so make sure to double check.

Cheers!

@fothchumby - Yes, your Chum can decide it wants to travel on its own if it gets "bored".  This will be addressed differently in v2.

As far as travel is concerned, there will be a dramatic change in how it works in the upcoming version 2, so hang tight, I think it will address a lot of the comments regarding travel.  I like the idea of "express" travel tickets.

I don't really want to put that much more "heavy" coding in the 1.x version, and instead focus on version 2.  I don't have a specific release date (some IRL work to do also) so please be patient, but keep the comments coming.

Cheers.

Thanks for the comments Twinkle.  Yes, in the future you will be able to choose the items you want to use as "payment" for a Crafting Token, a number of users have asked about it, so don't worry, no laughing here

See ya in Chumbyland.

Hi!  This is my first post here, and I hope I'm not duplicating anything.  I've been playing around with CL and now want to customize a bit.  I've been trying to enter the key and keep getting told I need to download CL.  Is there something I'm missing?  I'm trying to enter it at gochumby/cl.  Help!