• Registered: 2008-01-23
  • Posts: 4

Topic: Borrowing Widgets from Websites

I have absolutely *no* programming skills, and I found this great shockwave widget on traffic site and I would love to have it on my chumby, does anyone have a suggestion on how to go about this?

The widget in question can be found here: http://www.traffic.com/Houston-Traffic/ … ports.html under the "video" tab.

Can anyone tell me how to get this playing on my chumby?

/I may not have programming skills, but I do have technical skills

  • jvc
  • Busy Chum
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  • Registered: 2007-11-10
  • Posts: 158

Re: Borrowing Widgets from Websites

Using Firebug I can see it's just pulling a Flash video file and playing it

http://www.traffic.com/jamcast/320_240/ … ouston.flv

You can build a small video player with Flash to play this file. This page will tell you how to do it with Flash

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/ … 02560.html

  • Registered: 2008-01-23
  • Posts: 4

Re: Borrowing Widgets from Websites

Thank you for the help, but now I need a bit more, this is obviously a snippet of code and try as I might I don't seem to be able to find other the other pieces I need to make the code work in the example widgets. 

I'm assuming there is some missing header information.

Did I mention I don't know squat about programming?