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Opera Widget Competition - Sample Code

By Thomas Ford. Wednesday, 12. April 2006, 13:10:11

Over on the Opera Widgets blog, we launched a competition to win a gaming machine so powerful that it might face bans in several countries.

To help inspire the creativity of widget developers, we posted some sample code to create a Sudoku widget.

But we have other resources to help you write your first widget. We have a step-by-step tutorial for novices. We also show you how to add flips, fade ins, and other animations. Once you've mastered your craft, feel free to borrow from our animation library to really pimp your widget.

With a little skill, luck and good code, you'll be sitting back with a brand spankin' new $6,000 computer. Happy coding.

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Comments

robodesign # 12. April 2006, 14:12

we launched a competition to win a gaming machine so powerful that it might face bans in several countries.

Ban? Why? Where? It's very powerful, but why would a country ban it? Which countries?

velmu # 12. April 2006, 16:31

robodesign: I think he's referring to the "incidents" with the Apple Powermac G4 and Playstation 2 years back.

Oh the irony of the Intel switch... PowerPC was smoking fast then, though. Goodbye Moto.

elcid73 # 12. April 2006, 21:32

I just took it as a joke. Made me chuckle.

bugscout # 13. April 2006, 09:36

hi

i will take a look. there a some tools for my leatherman (firefox) that are still missing in oprea.

Anonymous # 21. April 2006, 02:50

IKT writes:

Just quickly adding that you need to make it so that the widgets have their own like, mini program, that can maybe have a tray icon, and start when windows starts but make it built into opera because it's definetly an awsome feature 10/10 stuff, it's just held back by the fact that viewing websites is not a 24/7 thing.

You understand right?