If you are ok doing all or most of your development in ActionScript I would suggest FlashDevelop (www.osflash.org/flashdevelop).

You can do pretty much everything you need to and generates Flash 7 just fine (using the free MTASC compiler).

I am actually working on a template for the chumby that sets up the environment and provides a few useful classes / ultra light components.  I'll post something in the next few days and it would be great if this could be something we can all collaborate on.

-- Raffaele

Check out the ChumbyClock in here: http://www.aromatic.org/chumby/

I did it in the Flash authoring tool just because I have to figure out how to embed the font in FlashDevelop, but otherwise everything (not that much) is done in ActionScript and I have a small sample done in FlashDevelop.

Here is the code:

function updateTimer():Void {
    var date:Date = new Date();
    time = d2(date.getHours()) + ":" + d2(date.getMinutes()) + ":" + d2(date.getSeconds());
}
function d2(n:Number):String {
    return n < 10 ? "0" + n : n;
}

var timerID:Number = setInterval(updateTimer, 100);

this.onTweenUpdate = function(v) {
    chumby._x = v;
}

this.onTweenEnd = function(v) {
    chumby._x = v;
    new mx.effects.Tween(this, 20+v, 300-v ,1000);
}

this.onTweenEnd(0);

...of course I will never know if it works, since I don't have a chumby

Here are a few open-source development tools that we've been pointed to by various folks. Note that I'm a hardware guy, so I haven't tested any of these, but some of the Chumby team may be investigating these further. It would obviously be nice to have a completely open and free development environment for writing widgets. 

Open Source Flash - osflash
http://www.osflash.org

swfmill
http://swfmill.org

Motion-Twin Action Script Compiler (MTASC)
http://www.mtasc.org

HAXE: Web-oriented universal language
http://www.haxe.org

Have fun,

Joe

I started trying to develop widgets for chumby with "swfc" which is part of SWF Tools, and I found it to be okay, but sorta annoying.  My personality is such that I decided I'd rather use pure Actionscript, so I switched to using MTASC. 

Either way, the examples that I created are currently at http://www.risacher.org/local/reference/swf/ , which I figure might be of use to someone else trying to get started.

My first go at the FlashDevelop how-to:

http://wiki.chumby.com/mediawiki/index. … op/Example

Hope it helps.

Thanks.

I would love to get some more "chapters" into the FlashDevelop on Chumby documentation, but I'm a actionscript noob.  I put a call out to see if any of the AS programmers might be able to add some docs, but have not heard anything.

If anyone has Chumby-ready FlashDevelop projects that they would like to share, send them my way... I can post them to the wiki.

Yes, this is also my Problem..

I have to create a simple application in chumby for my seminar at the university. I want to use Flashdevelop and so  I am looking for tutorials or open books to learn ActionScript2, but all of them teach AS2 for Flash IDE's with many many Screenshots instead of code like pshipley writed above.

Have someone has a link for learning AS2 in Flashdevelop (maybe it is useful to say, that I have a Java-Background).

Thanksa lot!