app StickyNotes for Windows - Beta 9.3

[firey]

Hey Firey, would you know how to get the colour of Aero? Such as Trillian and a few other apps have?

Sent all the info of how to do it via PM.

[Jan Veteran]

Sent all the info of how to do it via PM.

Thanks - it works fine!

[Chaltalian]

Hey there!

Your application is really nice!

I couldn't make a custom color for the title bar. No matter what color I chose on the spectrum, I was only able to get black.

How come I couldn't change the color of the title bar by right clicking on it and selecting from a menu? I was only able to change the color by right clicking on an area within the text box.

I have a suggestion too. What if you added a wrench icon next to the "New StickyNote" and "Close" buttons that would make Options quicker and easier to access?

I look forward to the completion of this app. :)

[Jan Veteran]

Hey there!

Your application is really nice!

1. I couldn't make a custom color for the title bar. No matter what color I chose on the spectrum, I was only able to get black.

2. How come I couldn't change the color of the title bar by right clicking on it and selecting from a menu? I was only able to change the color by right clicking on an area within the text box.

3. I have a suggestion too. What if you added a wrench icon next to the "New StickyNote" and "Close" buttons that would make Options quicker and easier to access?

I look forward to the completion of this app. :)

1. It works on my end - wait till a newer beta comes out (As the newer Beta has a totally different way of managing colours)

2. It's been changed back to the default way (Right click the titlebar)

3. I've been thinking of doing something like that - it's just adding another button doesn't seem to suit the app's look and feel (The button feels out of place)

Thanks.

[Jan Veteran]

With thanks to Firey for the Aero colour code.

[firey]

Looks slick man, glad the code worked for ya :D

[Chaltalian]

With thanks to Firey for the Aero colour code.

That is a great feature. I will definitely use that option when I use this app. Nice addition! :)

[briangw]

Jan, with 2.5, I am getting an error when running the .application file to install. It says it's missing some files and will not install, yet when I run the .exe, it works. I made sure to uninstall the old one. Also, are you looking into the ability to save sticky notes when a computer crashes or if you need to reboot?

[Jan Veteran]

Jan, with 2.5, I am getting an error when running the .application file to install. It says it's missing some files and will not install, yet when I run the .exe, it works. I made sure to uninstall the old one. Also, are you looking into the ability to save sticky notes when a computer crashes or if you need to reboot?

The .exe is the app.

I am looking into ways of saving StickyNotes when you reboot etc.

[briangw]

The .exe is the app.

I am looking into ways of saving StickyNotes when you reboot etc.

Oh, did you change the installer recently? For the earlier betas, I thought I ran a setup file that installed the app similar to running that .application file. However, this is the first one I thought that didn't have a setup file included.

[Jan Veteran]

Oh, did you change the installer recently? For the earlier betas, I thought I ran a setup file that installed the app similar to running that .application file. However, this is the first one I thought that didn't have a setup file included.

I've changed it for the Beta - so people can run it from a USB stick etc - you'll be able to install the final version normally though.

[firey]

how is the saving of notes coming?

[Jan Veteran]

how is the saving of notes coming?

It'll hopefully come in StickyNotes 1.5 / 2.0

[Jan Veteran]

Long time no speak guys:

A screenshot of StickyNotes Beta 3.

It includes character count, fonts, tons of bug fixes and small changes and a load of other little improvements.

I did promise to release a Beta on the 15th (Today) but i'm going to push it back to either tomorrow or the 17th.

[Jan Veteran]

StickyNotes Beta 3: Download

New and improved:

New Status Bar skin

Characters counter

Removed a lot of donation buttons

Added a New Note jumplist link

New icon

More native look and feel

Much faster and smoother

Colour bug is now fixed

Added an Aero colour option (Beta)

Added an About panel

The Title now has a tooltip

Remind Me feature is a little more complete (Still not finished)

And there's a few more little things...

So I hope that fixed a lot of problems people were facing, sorry for the delay - i've just been fixing tons of bugs.

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There's a few known bugs - if you close the Options UI with the close button, it doesn't uncheck the context menu and also if yoi Open up Remind Me, then close it. The titlebar disappears. The statusbar also disappears if it was enabled.

[+Xinok Subscriber²]

Only found one bug: Open up Remind Me, then close it. The titlebar disappears. The statusbar also disappears if it was enabled.

[Jan Veteran]

Only found one bug: Open up Remind Me, then close it. The titlebar disappears. The statusbar also disappears if it was enabled.

Added to the known bugs list - thanks for reporting.

[ajua]

Will try this and report back with my thoughts.

[Aethec]

Some bugs:

The text in the donation window ("donations keep stickynotes alive") is quite blurry (on m system at least)...are you using WPF? If so, you should set TextOptions.TextFormattingMode to Display.

The "Aero Colour" option doesn't work when switching themes (like you did in your video)...weird. I patched UxTheme, but I'm using the normal Aero theme right now.

The character count goes a bit outside the window when there are more than a hundred chars.

I love the status bar style - Aero FTW!

[Jan Veteran]

Some bugs:

The text in the donation window ("donations keep stickynotes alive") is quite blurry (on m system at least)...are you using WPF? If so, you should set TextOptions.TextFormattingMode to Display.

The "Aero Colour" option doesn't work when switching themes (like you did in your video)...weird. I patched UxTheme, but I'm using the normal Aero theme right now.

The character count goes a bit outside the window when there are more than a hundred chars.

I love the status bar style - Aero FTW!

The Donations text is an image Window now removed

The aero colour bug if most likely because I deleted the code which checks if the Aero colour has changed :p

I'll look into the Characters bug NOW FIXED

Glad you like the status bar!

Thanks for the feedback :)

[Jan Veteran]

The characters bug is fixed.

[firey]

couple things.

You can set a blank title, which causes problems with the peak window in windows 7. If you enter a blank title, and hit enter, it will save, it ends up removing the + button from aero peak. You can also set a super long title (there is no length) which will cause the program to go not responding.

If you set the color to the Aero color. Then change the aero color of your computer, then change the sticky note color to blue/any other color, then back to the Aero color it keeps the old aero color, not the new one.

[Jan Veteran]

couple things.

You can set a blank title, which causes problems with the peak window in windows 7. If you enter a blank title, and hit enter, it will save, it ends up removing the + button from aero peak. You can also set a super long title (there is no length) which will cause the program to go not responding.

If you set the color to the Aero color. Then change the aero color of your computer, then change the sticky note color to blue/any other color, then back to the Aero color it keeps the old aero color, not the new one.

1. The blank title bug is now fixed - thanks!

2. I can't seem to reproduce that? EDIT: I've just set a super long title and it stopped responding, so I will set a character limit.

3. Now fixed.

[Jan Veteran]

Ok - the title text limit is now set to 40 - is that OK for everybody? Or is it too much/little?

[firey]

Ok - the title text limit is now set to 40 - is that OK for everybody? Or is it too much/little?

That's good.