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After ending 2nd in the WidgetFX contest, I’d like to share my experiences about using WidgetFX with you.

To be honest, I only created my RadioFX widget one week before the deadline of the contest. I had thought about entering the contest before but I just couldn’t come up with a good idea for a widget that would be useful for a lot of people and not just me as a developer. But as I was creating another JavaFX application that would be able to display information from a Belgian radiostation’s webservice, I thought about how easy it would be to have a small application that would allow me to keep all my urls to various webradios in one place and avoid opening a browser for playback. And that’s when I realized that this would be a good scenario for a widget. So one week before the deadline I started to work on my RadioFX widget during the evenings. This shows that JavaFX allows for pretty fast application development because with little time you can still make cool things!

The features I like most about the WidgetFX framework:

• How easily it allows you to create a widget and save information.
• Sharing your widget with the rest of the world.
• It runs on multiple platforms.

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I’m proud to announce that I got 2nd in the WidgetFX contest which means I win 3 books from APress.
The widget I submitted was the RadioFX widget about which you can read more on the widget page of this blog.

First I would like to to congratulate the winner Pär Dahlberg on his very cool ScreenshotFX widget and Larry Dickson on his Infix WeatherWidget!
You can read all about it in Stephen Chin’s post on his blog. I think we all owe a special thanks to Stephen for creating the WidgetFX framework, the contest and all the time and effort he puts into JavaFX through WidgetFX and JFXtras.

Thank you Stephen!

Just wanted to share the link to a really interesting article that helped me better understand the layout principles used in JavaFX:

JavaFX 1.2: Layout by Amy Fowler

Enjoy!