Version history for Stickies

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Changes for v10.0a - v10.0c

• Changes
• Number of stack menu items with an icon raised from 32 to 64
• Fixes
• Tiny one-pixel title bar error in high DPI skins fixed
• Stickies no longer locks up at start, after having created a new data file
• v10.0b - January 2020
• Fixes
• Incoming network image notes received as "secret" are no longer blank
• Debug message removed, "earlier"
• Can now search for a note by ID in the Manage dialog again

Changes for v9.0e - v10.0a

• New features
• New data file format (using SQLITE)
• New (real-time) Settings dialog, replacing Options
• 'Number in circle' drawing tool
• '1, 2, or 3 days prior to' added to the Recurrence dialog
• Recurring notes can be enabled/disabled
• Can set the colour of Manage folder icons
• Tab and shift-tab indent/outdent bullets
• Option for whether to add an extra space with checkboxes
• Option for whether to show content preview in Manage lists
• Option to disable hyperlinks in text notes
• Option for when 'Go Away' notes wake up tomorrow
• Option for the default image save type
• Option to set the size of new Stacks
• Option for new notes to be rolled up
• Option for single-clicking the tray icon to open the Manage dialog
• Three options for the UI when grabbing the screen
• Command line parameter -allowmultiple to permit two instances of app to run at once
• Command line parameter -newstickyfromscreen to permit two instances of app to run at once
• Command line parameter -showhideall to permit two instances of app to run at once
• Command line parameter -showsettings to open Settings dialog
• Secret 'text.fontlist.override' option created
• Changes
• Stickies is now statically compiled
• Hotkeys can be individually enabled/disabled
• Menu UI changes - icons now scale with DPI setting
• Can now apply styles to text notes, and call up the note context menu in the Manage preview
• Manage dialog animation smoothed
• Stacks are now sorted
• Stacks can be bulk moved (when collapsed)
• DST warning added to Recurrence dialog (when setting every X days)
• Added API command get stack utitle
• Added API command get desktop stack
• 'Insert Link' dialog focuses Address entry when adding a link to existing text
• App no longer has custom code to determine browser to use
• Created, Modified and Stored dates are always distinct now
• Encrypt/Decrypt menu items in Manage show when both text and images are selected
• After dragging from a list in Manage, the next item is selected
• Added 'Delete' icon to Closed right-click menu in Manage
• Some additional items from the system tray menu added to the taskbar button menu
• Manage list UI overhaul, app font changed to Calibri
• Show/hide all a little faster in the Manage dialog
• More and large pen widths in image notes
• Pressing a number when painting text sets that style's font and colour
• Locking a note position with content also prevents sizing
• After searching in Manage, F3 repeats the search within the note
• The RTL reading order is now read from Windows
• More items added to the Snooze menu
• Sticky and Stack window titles (not visible to the user) now include the title (for programmatic identification)
• The Sleep dialog controls are always enabled, and the radio button switches automatically
• The last used Alarm value is saved
• Right-clicking a blank part of a Stored list in Manage shows the 'New note' menu
• Activating the task bar button when all notes are hidden shows them all
• The backup and restore commands have been moved into Settings from the tray menu
• Less important notifications are now automatically removed after a few seconds
• Added two more hilite colours
• Database size shown in Manage Home screen
• A bulk content save operation can be cancelled mid way through
• Removed: Search engines
• Removed: Custom category icons
• Removed: Can no longer search by sticky ID in Manage
• Removed: 'Large note' warning
• Removed: Command line help (/?)
• Removed: Stickies Scanner option support
• Removed: Counting network sent/received
• Removed: Move data directory
• Fixes
• Pressing control-break in a stack window no longer closes it
• Pasting bitmaps from MS Paint works better
• Colour picker works better on 200% DPI displays
• Mouse over hints on URLs work better
• Excessive HANDLE usage when taking automatic backups is fixed
• Can no longer use alt-c in a locked note
• Setting a title in the Manage Choose dialog now works
• Having an empty Friends server set will no longer create empty notes at startup
• WindowTitleMatches will now match * to be anything
• Display problem with alarm indicator on stacks with a high DPI setting fixed
• Loading app with some notes 'on top' flickers less
• Incoming secret stickies no longer drop the title
• 'User 2' value from stored notes no longer incorrectly written to 'User 3'
• The control double-tap menu opens correctly when used in a rolled up note
• Dragging a note from Stored to a Stack, no longer leaves Stored visible
• API command set desktop skinpath was working when it should have been GPO'd
• Clearing an alarm causes a need to save data
• Editing a note title when showing the Calendar category in Manage no longer changes the list to Sleeping
• Icon flashing on secret sticky works correctly
• Sometime intermittant on-top setting may a little more robust
• Really small thumbtracks at the top of the scrollbar will now show
• HYPERLINK "http://" text removed from Manage preview text

Changes for v9.0d - v9.0e

• Change
• Removed display of the red message "This large note is slowing down Stickies" as it wasn't always accurate
• Fix
• The clash with Edge on sa few W10 machines, meaning you can't type text into the browser, has been fixed

Changes for v9.0c - v9.0d

• Changes
• Pressing shift-delete in a text sticky cuts the current line of text
• Fixes
• Over-verbose OnManage log file entry removed
• Converting to an image sticky with a non-default layout current in the skin, now sets correct edge widths
• Setting a data directory which doesn't exist now throws an error and closes Stickies, rather than crashing
• Opening the Manage dialog with the Home tab selected, clicking Stored, clicking a note, no longer show Home in the background
• Crash fixed when sending an image sticky using MAPI email
• Crash fixed when booking out friends for editing from a Stickies Server
• Possibility of overwriting text content when a Desktop sticky loses focus, when same note was selected in Manage preview, now fixed
• Notes with autowidth enabled, which are rolled up at launch, with an alternate position now save and load details correctly
• Supported skin version set correctly, so that "This skin might not work correctly" messages no longer appear

Changes for v9.0b - v9.0c

• Changes
• Checkboxes can no longer be changed in a locked sticky
• Double-clicking a stack in the Manage dialog brings it to the foreground
• Fixes
• Bug fix in skin language: vertical percentages were broken
• Bug fix in skin language: 'light BG colour' was uninitialised in places
• Bug fix in skin language: saving and loading vstrips based on scrollbar
• An ampersand '&' in a search term shows correctly in the Manage dialog
• Copying or moving a Stored image sticky to the Desktop now includes the title
• Moving a Stored image sticky to the Desktop no longer generates a "No selected record" error

Changes for v8.0c - v9.0b

• Changes
• Large text notes are highlighted as slowing down Stickies in the Manage dialog (the message is always in English)
• Fixes
• Control-q no longer performs a debugging function (instead it does nothing)
• Single-clicking the tray icon brings all notes forward again (when the taskbar button option is not set)
• Copying an image sticky from store to desktop no longer ignores the default skin
• Better drawing of the Manage unlock button, better drawing around the content on the right when the Find bar is open
• Arrow keys now work in the orphan list control, and the skin choose list control
• Checkbox shortcut works in the Manage dialog again
• v9.0a
• New features
• 100% new, rewritten from scratch Manage dialog
• Modern UI look and feel
• Preview note contents in list
• Slide-in tree and properties
• Lockable search bar
• New calendar display of upcoming sleeping stickies
• Sort orders of each category stored individually
• Encryption for stored text notes. Visit Options to turn this on, and select a password. Then use the low-left corner icon in Manage to lock/unlock encryption. Please don't forget your password - I am not able to help you recover from a forgotten password, your notes will be permanently encrypted!
• Sort of secret advanced properties editor in Manage. Open Manage, then Properties for a sleeping, recurring or attached sticky, hold shift and double-click the "Properties" area at the top
• Menu items are larger, new icons for all menu items
• Monitor high DPI support, including per-monitor DPI
• Option to have a Taskbar button, which has custom tasks, and an overview of all notes and stacks on screen
• "Years" are now an option on the right-click / Sleep menus
• Added dialog to manually set a note size (control-shift-x)
• Pressing F2 in a stack edit the name
• Can now select any colour at all for text, not just the predefined sixteen
• Open Log button added to Advanced options tab
• Can right-click a stack to create a sticky already in it
• New API commands:
• get stack position
• get stack size
• set stack position ,
• set desktop size 999x999
• get desktop altwidth
• set desktop altwidth 999
• set desktop altposition ,
• get desktop altposition
• get option RolledHasAltPosition
• set option RolledHasAltPosition=1
• New API events:
• 511 created stack
• 512 closed stack
• 513 stack moved to ,
• 514 stack sized to x
• 515 backup taken to:
• 516 stickies is exiting for a restore from: c:\folder
• 517 desktop sticky (un)rolled
• 518 options changed
• Changes
• Stickies and Stacks have a new skin
• Right-click sleep menus include "years"
• Only TTF fonts can be selected
• Skin button to play alarm sound now toggles it
• The scrollbar setting is now per-note, rather than application-wide
• Bulk-printing notes sends just one document to the printer
• Stack windows now have unique titles (AStack:xx), as stickies already do (ASticky:xxxxxx)
• Stack windows obey the "Clicking one sticky brings them all to front" setting
• The tray icon scales better to high DPI displays
• Some button validation now performed when using the Search Engine list in Options
• Fixes
• Fix for a crash on restoring
• Memory leak when creating image stickies fixed
• Stickies no longer suffers from the Year 2038 problem
• Crash fixed when stickies was run with store.mdb in the data directory, but not options.ini
• Non-ANSI month names now work OK in dates
• Bug fixed with snoozed sticky status not being set to save
• Bug fixed with new minimum sizes not being applied when switching skins
• Bug fixed meaning setting "Receive all as secret" no longer sets all incoming notes to by yellow
• Bug fixed with excess entries in the [properties] table
• Bug fixed with non-ANSI month names (eg ??????) not showing in long dates
• Bug fixed with "Load image" skin button discarding text content
• Bug fixed which meant that scrollbars showed in empty stickies
• Bug fixed meaning rolled, standing notes would move downwards by themselves
• Bug fixed with searching for the [ character
• Bug fixed: 502 API events now report the sticky ID as per the documentation
• Bug fixed meaning unpacking a stack with a note solo no longer unsolos the rest of the notes
• No longer responds to API commands during application exit to prevent bad data being returned

Changes for v8.0b - v8.0c

• New features
• New API events '509 desktop sticky moved' and '510 desktop sticky sized'
• Changes
• Stickies now uses less CPU if there are no attached notes
• Fixes
• Bug fix which prevented backups from starting until Stickies had run continually for 24 hours
• Possible fix for occasional crashes when using the Restore function
• Bug around selecting a colour from the fader changing the shade fixed
• Bug with sizing stickies and stacks from the bottom snapping too small (including to zero height) fixed
• Fixed bug with skin 'fixed size' indicator not being refreshed when size mode changed
• Stack indicators better refreshed when dragging stickies into a stack
• Searching stored stickies containing a single quote (') character now works

Changes for v8.0a - v8.0b

• Changes
• Changing pen colour in image stickies also sets the text colour
• Performing data file a restore now includes more files
• In the Sleep dialog, the ampersand has been moved back from until to until
• Creating a DC with "DISPLAY" checked for success to try to avoid a possible crash
• .sti files are attached to SMTP emails again as in v7, rather than .rtf file
• Two new API commands: set desktop utext , get desktop utext
• Fixes
• Can now send again a note with sticky.exe using a plain text file with carriage returns
• The option "Prevent duplicate recurring" works again - which was broken in v8.0a
• "Do To All" actions from the notification area menu no longer affect stacked stickies
• Changing the shadow border setting in Options no longer hides all stack windows
• Creating a new store category under an existing category from the "Store this sticky" dialog could create it under a stack tree item, and so "lose" the sticky
• The option "Use alternate colour selection" no longer has no effect
• Orphaned content was being created with the option "Keep deleted" set to zero
• A crash when writing to transfer file (surrounded with "" characters) prevented
• Calling up the Save dialog in a text sticky no longer leaves all the text selected
• Having a stack on the screen with the option "Create a new sticky with a single tray icon click" no longer stops input focus reaching the new sticky

Changes for v7.1e - v8.0a

• New features
• Images can be inserted into text stickies
• Stacks for desktop stickies
• Friendly name hyperlinks
• Periodic automatic full backups
• Properties dialog added for all stickies in all categories
• Screen grab directly to an image sticky
• Skin browser dialog
• Stored sticky category icons
• Image undo levels can be configured
• Restore from backup
• 'Solo' a sticky to work with just that one
• Option to offset screen position of new stickies to prevent overlap
• New image editing operations: rotate, greyscale, invert, flip, mirror, border, blur, jitter, flood fill, border
• Configurable tab stops
• Feature to move data file location
• Save image stickies as JPG
• Show recurring parent
• Default note content files for text and image notes
• Changes
• Stickies is now fully Unicode, supporting all languages throughout
• Stored stickies retain many more attributes, like create time, position, read only, source
• New data storage format, RTF split into separate files, settings, options and friends into their own files
• 'Rescue offscreen' command now also fixes the Manage dialog
• Manage dialog has been optimised, and so is less 'flickery'
• Hotkey functionality built into the exe file, the DLL is no longer required
• Text desktop note contents can be edited in the Manage dialog
• Hold shift while attaching a sticky to attach it relative to the position of the window
• Option to disable RTL shortcut keys
• All tray icons can now be changed
• Choose a place to create a new store category when storing a sticky
• 'Set all' checkbox on the Recurring dialog
• -rescue command line parameter added
• Defaul text highlight colours made a little less harsh, users can now change them
• Title items on menus are now bold, not grey
• All numeric values in Options have spin controls
• At startup, the stickies.exe path is checked for data files as well as the CWD
• Maximum size of stickies raised to 614,400
• Image sticky pen now shrinks to single pixel width
• All icons changed to include an alpha-channel
• Shift-context menu key opens the content menu, not the sticky menu
• Removed: recover dialog
• Removed: Palm and PPC support
• Removed: -registry, -recover, -norecover command line parameters
• Removed: import/export store categories in Manage
• Fixes
• User values (user1/2/3) are now correctly initialised for new notes
• Bug when moving a note from Stores to Closed to Desktop fixed
• Sending from a Stored category to the Desktop no longer decrements the count by two
• After choosing the pen colour, the original input focus is restored
• Paste buttons on skins can now convert a RTF note to an image note
• New notes set to appear in the center of the screen now do so correctly
• WM_QUERYENDSESSION messages handled
• Fixed English text "Snooze alarm for X minutes" fixed
• .sti file loading no longer affected by setting an incoming network style
• On-top setting is no longer lost by using the menu to set another note not-on-top

Changes for v7.1c - v7.1e

• v7.1e - 10th November 2012
• What's new since version 7.1d
• Changes
• Windows 8 is now recognised by Stickies so the correct font list is displayed
• The Stickies installer now puts an icon on the Start screen under Windows 8
• Maximum text in a sticky raised from 265000 to 614400 characters
• Fixes
• Bug fix ensuring that sticky IDs are kept when control-dragging a sticky to copy it
• v7.1d - 7th May 2012
• What's new since version 7.1c
• Changes
• "stickies.bye" now written at app close as an additional backup
• When setting all stickies as "Auto Width (left)" or "Auto Width (right)", rolled stickies are now not changed
• Fixes
• Fixed faulty save logic meaning changes to the last text sticky edited might not be saved
• Possible crash after using the Sleep menu fixed
• The keypress cursor position is remembered when deleting from the Manage dialog

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