I was mucking about on about 4 or 5 different things at once and ended up back at this post. I was really curious about what the "Godfathers" of Flash were up to when I read that post over a year ago, and it seems like the question has been answered and I apparently missed it.
"The Greenbox™ Home Energy Manager empowers homeowners to understand and manage their energy consumption. With knowledge of their energy use, consumers can take proactive steps to conserve energy, understand their impact on the environment, and save money.
Conveniently monitoring electricity, water, and/or gas usage in real-time, the Greenbox provides direct feedback to consumers about their homes performance. Studies have shown that households can reduce their utility bills by 10-20%, just by being aware of their ongoing usage.
The Greenbox presents easy to understand graphs, charts, historical data, and community comparisons to empower people to understand and make informed decisions about their energy and water usage. A personalized recommendation engine takes the mystery out of making your home more efficient by forecasting usage, cost, and emissions savings that can be created by implementing various efficiency improvements."
That's something that just might come in handy as a barrel of oil topped $123 today and other types of energy are slowly creeping up in cost.
Now I'm curious if they're using Flash for that device and if consumer devices like this are the reason Adobe moved to open (free) the licensing for the Flash Player recently. I figured it was for flashy fun things like set top boxes, handheld games (leapster), etc. and not necessarily for utilitarian devices like an energy management system. I guess I figured wrong.
The only thing in the press release that set off my BS detector was this.. "“The Open Screen Project will make it simple for Verizon and our partners to deliver rich mobile experiences to more devices,”" .. yeah, and how big of a fee will they charge developers before they can develop for the Verizon network?
I also noticed that there was no mention of Apple in that press release.
I was working on a Flash project, and needed a way to quickly strip the carriage returns out of some XML so I could paste it into the JavaScript that I was using to send the data into the SWF (I know there are better ways.. ) and came up with this code...
(((edited to add that this was an ANCIENT post.. and it's much easier to just use something like mystring = string.split("\n").join(""); )))
I played around for a few minutes with the Flash MX ActionScript drawing methods.. curveTo, and lineTo.
Basically I started with the Macromedia example for curveTo which is supposed to draw a circle (but doesn’t) and went off. . check it out at http://oddhammer.com/tutorials/curveto.html
