OpenLaszlo+Chumby needs to happen. It would be unbelievably cool.

We looked into it, and there’s one known blocking issue currently. All versions of OpenLaszlo currently write to _root, so they probably (*) cannot be sub-loaded within an existing Flash movie clip. Chumby subloads content, so OpenLaszlo-generated swfs do not currently load within Chumby.

There are two avenues of exploration here. First is to verify whether Chumby is calling lockroot() before subloading content; this not, adding this call *may* make it possible to load OpenLaszlo apps on the Chumby.

The second approach is to modify OpenLaszlo to no longer write to _root. We’re about 95% there with OL4, but there are still a few places left in the code. This will be a priority after we ship 4.0.

And, a belated answer to Raju’s question. OpenLaszlo does run within Flash Lite 2. However, at least on the Nokia 6681 we tried, the heap size was only 800k or so, and was quickly exhausted. There is work to be done before OL will run within small, static-sized heaps. However, I understand that newer smart phones have a larger FL2 heap, and some of the newest Nokia phones even have a paged memory model, so there is reason to hope that we’ll have a better story there soon.