A template for FlashDevelop to easy Chumby widget development, and a set of mini components for FlashLite 3

The template configures a few things:

• Setup the Flash movie to Flash8 320x240 12fps
• Creates an application class with a "main" that gets executed when the movie is loaded
• Creates a "util" package with a few utility classes and components:
• UI : colors, basic graphic primitives, TextField utilities
• Menu : a very basic (and very ugly) menu system
• BarChart : a bar chart component
• HorizontalMeter : an horizontal "battery meter"
• VerticalMeter : a vertical "battery meter"
• Chumby : utility functions to access the Chumby's hardware

One day I'll write better documentation, but basically all you need to do is install FlashDevelop 3 and then copy the folder 03 ActionScript 2 - Chumby in C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\FlashDevelop\Templates\ProjectTemplates

If the template would come preinstalled with FD it would be in C:\Program Files\FlashDevelop\FirstRun\Templates\ProjectTemplates, but I don't know if there is a way to tell FlashDevelop to re-scan the source template folders.

Note that in later versions of FlashDevelop the default AS2 project template seems to have moved here: C:\Program Files\FlashDevelop\Projects\220 ActionScript 2 - AS2 Project

So, you can try to copy the "03..." folder as "330 ActionScript 2 - Chumby" (or some number that doesn't exist).

Once you have the template, run FlashDevelop, select "New Project" and you should see "Chumby" in the list of templates for ActionScript 2. Select it, give a name to the folder and the project and go.

Build the project and test it, it should display a text message on a blue background. If that works, just go ahead and build the real app.

Note: I chose to copy all the "util" files (UI, Chumby and widgets) into each project. It makes everything easy. Mtasc is smart enough to only compile the files you use so extra sources don't make your app any bigger. And you can always remove the files you know you will not be using.