Any Windows computer that has the .NET Framework v 1.1 installed. If the program errors when you try to start it the most likely culprit is that you either don't have the .NET Framework installed or you don't have v 1.1.
Right-click on the tray icon and select 'New'
Right-click on the note and select 'Edit'
Right-click on the note and move your mouse over the 'Color' menu until the list of possible color schemes appears. Then select the color scheme that you want to apply to the note.
Right-click on the note and select 'Resize' and then drag the border of the note. When you are done just right-click and select 'End Resize'.
Right-click on the note and select 'Kill' and then select 'Yes' when it asks you if you really want to kill the note.
Right click on the tray icon and select 'Colors' and then double click on a color scheme to edit.
It is what the note is stuck to.
A process is a program, use this hook if you want to attach a note to something like Internet Explorer.
A specific hook uses the text on the title bar of a window, this hook would be used if you wanted to attach a hook to a specific web site (since the site URL is usually displayed on the title bar).
First start the program (and if you plan on doing a specific hook get the program title bar to read whatever it is you want to hook it to, such as going to the web site or opening the document). Then create or edit the note that you want to hook, select the desired hook mode, and click 'Edit Hook' to edit the hook. The next window will list all the processes or windows (depending on the hook mode), merely select the process or window title to hook the note to.
A process name will be the name of the main .exe or .dll file that is being executed. An easy way to find out what the .exe file name is for a process is to right click the shortcut that you use to start the program and look at the settings (the .exe name will be listed, just look for that in the process list without the .exe extension).
Fade can be turned off or on, merely click 'Fade' on the tray menu. Fade speeds cannot currently be modified, however. If this feature interests you please let me know.
Step one in finding a note is always to right-click the tray icon and hit 'Show All'. At that point there are two possibilities:
Not in the current version. If this feature interests you please let me know (personally I only use three or four out of the ten as it is).
To work correctly all color schemes should have different names. Otherwise the program doesn't know which of the color schemes to choose and picks the first one it comes to in the list, which may or may not be the one you have edited.
Right click the tray icon and select 'Show All' and then right-click and edit the note like you normally would.
These two questions are related. For some reason the built in 'My Computer' and 'My Documents' (and all locations that you can get from those locations) do not return a window handle, so currently there is no way for Sticky Notes to know if these windows are being viewed. This will be fixed if I happen to run across a different way of accessing the current window (if any users know please let me know). For now this is a known issue, an easy way to update the sticky notes is to click the start menu, click again so the start menu closes, and then re-select the window you were working in.
The note docking code currently only allows the notes to be attached to a single monitor, let me know if this feature interests you.
This forces the .NET Framework to clean up all of the extra memory that it is currently using. If you check the amount of memory being used before and after you click this you may find that it helps and you may find that it doesn't do anything (it depends mostly on how many notes and such that you have open at the time). Some have mentioned Sticky Notes' memory usage as a concern. Since I am not responsible for the way the .NET Framework deals with memory I have done what I can, which is to force the framework to clean up what it can.
Sticky Notes saves whenever it is closing. If you have just entered some important information please click 'Save' on the tray icon menu so that it saves your note in case of computer crashes or power outages, etc.
I used Microsoft's free .NET Framework SDK (command-line compiler). Sticky Notes was coded in C# using the free IDE #Develop (SharpDevelop) which I highly recommend to anyone interested in C#. I used Paint Shop Pro for the logo and icon.
You will have to contact me. I will naturally want to know what you plan to do with the source, but for
personal projects or curiosity, yes, it is freely available.
I am one who uses free programs because they're free. I do understand, however, that there are people who want to donate money to support a program that they like (I suppose I don't fall into this group since I can't really donate what I don't have...) and that they would be willing to pay for. I suppose the main reasons to donate would be to let me know you like the program, and to encourage me to continue to write fun freeware programs. If you like the program but don't want to donate money I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd take a minute or two and just let me know that you like Sticky Notes. Also, if you're wondering what a good amount to donate is...I don't know either. Whatever you want to donate, whatever the program's worth to you, it doesn't matter to me if you want to give me a dollar or fifty. Either way, I hope you enjoy Sticky Notes, and if you do then tell others about it too! My goal here is to get my name out, money isn't the focus.