And the winner is...
WidgetFX is a nice project, but it's young and users will not use a widget engine with a minimal set of widgets. A great way to solve such a problem is a contest. A contest gets the buzz going, creates content and makes people involved.
WidgetFX 1.2 was released in the end of June and at the same time the first WidgetFX contest was announced. Having previously developed a widget and grown quite fond of JavaFX I gave it a try. After all, I already had an itch to scratch. Besides writing the code and blogging about it could enter me into two contests at the same time. Well, turned out that it did take a bit longer to finish a usable version of the ImageEditor in ScreenshotFX and in hindsight I was only at most half way there when I wrote that blog post. Anyway, I had time to finish a version it has even been useful for me a couple of times already.
The contest had slipped my mind since I've been very busy for the last few weeks. Imagine my surprise when I came home tonight and saw an email from Stephen Chin with the subject "Congratulations on Winning the WidgetFX Contest!". Really? Now that's simply awesome! :)
Now when I won and all I feel a bit bad that I've not written a single line of code for the project in weeks. After all... there are a lot of things to improve... ui... exporting... not to mention submitting the ImageEditor to JFXtras :)
Well, that's a lot of words when all I actually wanted to say was Thank You to the people who liked my widget enough to deem it a worthy winner!
See you in the next contest :)