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.
So
here's what they've been up to..
"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.
wow.....
the announcement today from Adobe about opening the Flash Player up to the market to be placed on any imaginable device is just stunning. This is going to place even more demand on people with Flash skills as these companies begin to produce handheld devices using the Flash Player.
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.
So I was wondering if the Flash 5 Player would support the full ISO-8859 Latin-1 character set…
So I was wondering if the Flash 5 Player would support the full ISO-8859 Latin-1 character set… so I grabbed the table of characters from Marin Ramsch’s page and pasted them into Flash 5 and published.. did it work? Does Flash5 support the Latin1 character set? See for yourself
So I ran into a little trouble with an application I was working on in Flash and after some testing it looks like theres a limit on the length of a string of 64k. That’s a pretty big string, but there was a reason that I needed it to be bigger.. oh well.
That led me to test a few other things. I found on this page a section on “Huge Scripts” about 3/4 of the way down the page.. where it says “it’s good practice to keep scripts smaller than 64k (compiled) per frame, it’s possible to get larger.” So.. how much larger? What’s the limit? hehe.. So I created a little test SWF to see how much I could fit on one frame. I created 5 strings, each 60k in length (that’s what? a 16 page document for each string?) on the same frame and a text field for each one. I published it as both Flash 5 and 6, and with fingers crossed pointed a browser at it. It worked. The text for all 5 strings showed up in the browser. So.. I tried 20 strings that were each 20k. That worked too.
