Topic: Support for Widget Developers???

I know you Chumby guys are very busy,
But I really did bust my hump to put together two decent controls,
And I haven't seen much activity yet...

You're How Old:
Configures with a Name and Birthday,
The Widget tells you How many years and days old,
Along with number of days till next birthday.
I programmed one for each of my family members.

XboxGamerTag:
Displays GamerTag iframe given a gamer's tag.
Is gonna require some cross site support.
Point is, if you test, it's not gonna work without support.
So, it's just a development piece right now, till Chumby establishes trust.
Sent a message about this through support.
This needs more development,
But useless right now without support.
(Also odd, Chumby displays a light gray background, but Virtual Chumby does not...)

I guess the real problem is,
I don't know if these problems have been looked at or not.
I know you all have a great deal to do.
Just really breaking my pace to develop hard and then wait.

Some feedback and line of communication please?
Please don't let my widgets die in a black hole...

CRJ
Charley Jones, PMP
A+ MOUS MCP MCSA MCSE MCDBA MCAD MCT MCTS MCITP PMP ITIL
Founder & President: S3OLV.Com    Founder & President: LVXUG.Com

Re: Support for Widget Developers???

We just made of bunch of widgets public this afternoon that were backlogged.  It appears that you submitted these two widgets yesterday.  I'll flag the responsible person to take a look.

I'm not sure what you're asking us to do to support your XboxGamerTag widget.

Re: Support for Widget Developers???

Thank you!

It appears that the request from support didn't go to the right place,
I figured posting the forums would work.

Due to Cross Site Scripting Security,
My widet is unable to access 2 sites:
1) SSSOLV.Com (my domain, hosting a helper script GamerTag.ASPX)
2) *.XBox.Com (Xbox Live Domain hosting images)

Here's is the problem (and the solution).
1) Microsoft publishes a url where you can get an iframe snapshot of an xbox user.
2) Flash was unable to read or incorporate the iframe, so....
3) I generated a GamerTag.ASPX file which decodes the iframe to simple variables.
4) The SWF reads those variables and loads them into a simulated iframe.

Currently the control is private in my profile,
I need you to add
*.SSSOLV.Com
*.XBOX.Com
to the CrossDomain.XML file at Chumby Root.

I have one additional problem left to resolve.
Reputation currently comes down as a GIF file,
Flash does not display GIFs, so...
I need to write a conversion from GIF to JPG in the GamerTag.ASPX file.
I don't think this will be very hard.
So, Reputation is hard coded to 5 stars right now.
No biggie...

CRJ
Charley Jones, PMP
A+ MOUS MCP MCSA MCSE MCDBA MCAD MCT MCTS MCITP PMP ITIL
Founder & President: S3OLV.Com    Founder & President: LVXUG.Com

Re: Support for Widget Developers???

Hmmm, I though the problem was on the Chumby Side,
Perhaps I misunderstood this note:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewCon … ;sliceId=2
Does that mean the cross domain xml files needs to be on my SSSolv.com server?

CRJ
Charley Jones, PMP
A+ MOUS MCP MCSA MCSE MCDBA MCAD MCT MCTS MCITP PMP ITIL
Founder & President: S3OLV.Com    Founder & President: LVXUG.Com

Re: Support for Widget Developers???

Sorry, the security doesn't work that way.

Adding these domains to *our* crossdomain files doesn't solve the problem - you need to have *.chumby.com added to the crossdomain files on *those* servers.

The Flash Lite player on the chumby should support loadMovie() on GIF and PNG images.

6 (edited by crjones 2007-11-21 08:45:09)

Re: Support for Widget Developers???

Thank you, again, I misunderstood the CrossDomain.XML file.
It's still a bit new to me...

Cross domain script is now letting the ASPX file return data.
So that's a good start.

So, just a question, and observations...

1) Works on my computer.
    I see text and graphics,
    Assuming I still have at least 1 security problem remaining in deployment.

2) On Virtual Chumby, graphics are not loading.
    Do I need to get a crossdomain.xml file placed on xbox.com to read public jpgs?
    That seems a little insane.

3) Also, it does seem that Virtual Chumby does behave a bit differently than real Chumby.
    Background for the Widget is light grey,
    Works real, but in virtual is solid black.

CRJ
Charley Jones, PMP
A+ MOUS MCP MCSA MCSE MCDBA MCAD MCT MCTS MCITP PMP ITIL
Founder & President: S3OLV.Com    Founder & President: LVXUG.Com

Re: Support for Widget Developers???

When you run a Flash movie locally (eithet from the IDE or the standalone player), it has different security rules than one downloaded from the network, as is the case for chumby widgets and Flash movies in web pages.

You should not need a crossdomain file in order to load images using loadMovie(), so I suspect something else is going on there.

Your widget should not depend upon any particular background color - you should provide a background graphic, even if it's just a solid color.

Re: Support for Widget Developers???

Well, grins, guess I can't test this from work.
Corporate blocks xbox.com.
So I really can't tell if it's working now.
It is downloading the correct text info,
Will check again later tonight.

CRJ
Charley Jones, PMP
A+ MOUS MCP MCSA MCSE MCDBA MCAD MCT MCTS MCITP PMP ITIL
Founder & President: S3OLV.Com    Founder & President: LVXUG.Com

Re: Support for Widget Developers???

Thank you for getting both widets online.

CRJ
Charley Jones, PMP
A+ MOUS MCP MCSA MCSE MCDBA MCAD MCT MCTS MCITP PMP ITIL
Founder & President: S3OLV.Com    Founder & President: LVXUG.Com