What's new in Portable Stickies 10.1d
Apr 5, 2023
- Changes:
- New command line parameter -linux to make the app more compatible with that OS
- Fixes:
- Recurring notes no longer show in the calendar view in Manage before their start date
- Read-only image notes are now more read-only (image transforms no longer work when read-only)
- Note modified date is updated in a few places it wasn't being updated (loading an image into a note)
- Notes set to recur for "every X" start when they should
- Changing the password updates encrypted notes correctly now
New in Portable Stickies 10.1c (Oct 17, 2022)
- Changes:
- Added more informative errors on a failure to load the language DLL
- Can now drag stacks from Manage to Desktop
- Shift-deleting selected text will "Cut" it. With no text selected, the key press will still "delete line"
- Menu items to change selected text case or size will retain the selection
- Fixes:
- Repeating "Failure to backup" message fixed
- Fixed a display issue for help text in Settings when the Scrollbar check box is ticked
- "Screen grab an area" toggle slider fixed
- Sleeping a note past January 2038 no longer crashes Stickies
- RTL shortcut keys now set correctly in the Manage dialog
- Store note dialog now better remembers whether the note should be encrypted
- Recurring notes with a future start time now work correctly after Stickies is restarted
New in Portable Stickies 10.1b (Mar 27, 2022)
- New features:
- Added API call "get manage showingid"
- Changes:
- Can no longer size image notes when they're rolled up
- Fixes:
- Fixed disabled recurring notes showing a junk "next wake" date in Manage
- Fixed not being able to set 100% opacity in Settings
- Removing a note from a stacked stack in Manage now shows the note correctly
- Setting a colour just before closing or sleeping a note now updates the preview colour in Manage
- Clicking the "Check all" button in the Recurring dialog now sets the OK button
- Searching using a tag, but not a search term, now includes sleeping/recurring notes in results
- When loading corrupt/huge stack windows, the size is brought under control
- Infinite loop removed when changing large note DPI
- Debug log message "slept for" now added correctly
- Stack indicator now set when creating a note in the Manage window
- Trying to size an image to zero pixels no longer causes a crash
- Using "change case" buttons with no text selected no longer wipes the note
- Skin button "highlight 6" and "highlight 7" now do something
- Entering single digit hours and immediately pressing Return in the Sleep dialog now sets the time correctly
- Fixed being able to access encrypted content after re-locking the app
New in Portable Stickies 10.1a (May 31, 2021)
- New features:
- Dark mode
- Tags
- The Home tab in Manage is now a bar chart
- Control-Return inserts a horizontal line into text notes
- The on-top setting when notes wake can be copied from what on-top is set to when sent to sleep
- The Manage window can now be set on-top, and set less tall
- Numbers on right hand side of the Manage tree, showing the count of items in that folder/stack/tag
- Additional option for single-clicking the notification area icon: Toggle show/hide all
- Changes:
- Desktop notes can be individually selected (hold control and click them) to move or perform an action on those selected
- Holding shift to bulk-select desktop notes draws a border around them
- Entering a password has moved to the bottom the main Manage window
- Method which sets notes as on-top has been changed to improve reliability
- Icons for stored notes in Manage now match their folder icon
- The Settings screen is now shorter, and can be scrolled
- Removed the status icons from ontop/rolled/scrollbar/readonly menu items
- The Manage Choose window height is saved
- Selecting text in a hyperlink is easier
- The list in the Manage window remembers the position when deleting items
- Skin paths when saved in the App or Data directories are stored as relative paths (to help portable app users)
- Toggle switches are animated
- The selection highlighing in the Manage tree feels a little more reliable
- Option to show sample content and title now applies to both normal and compact lists
- "60" in sleep menus is now the more useful "90" (60 minutes is an hour, 60 days is two months)
- Lowered the brightness of the "Hole in white screen" screen grab whiteness
- "Create new tag" and "Add to items" buttons are hidden from the tag set dialog when using it to set a search filter
- Dropping an image into an empty text note now sets a title from the file, as the note gets converted to an image note
- Moved a few dialog controls around to allow for easier translations
- Desktop notes being put into a stack are now de-selected as they do that
- Improved the colour choose window
- Added plusminus to skins
- Option added to always check desktop notes for rescue on create
- Now saves the store dialog height on both cancel and OK
- Skin actions for setting text case and tab stops added
- The Manage window can now be maximized
- Updated SQLITE library from 3.22 to 3.33
- API: OnCopyData now returns TRUE when the message is handled
- Improved editing recurring notes - the next wake time is retained for "every X"
- Right-clicking for a menu in the space under the tree in Manage lets you create a top-level folder
- Deleting an item in the list in the Manage dialog retains the selection position in that list
- New API command get list folders
- New API command do reindex
- Fixes:
- Selecting Settings from the tray button jump list now works again
- Two swapped drop lists on "New Notes" tab put back where they should be
- "Wake a copy" icon fixed
- Using control-shift-drag to copy multiple notes with mixed content (text and image notes) now works OK
- Setting no longer sets 100% transparent (invisible!) notes
- Bug with copying stored notes fixed
- Menus are now per-monitor DPI aware (size correctly according to the screen they open on)
- Storing notes to a force-encrypted folder now always works
- Control-dragging mixed groups of text and image notes now copies both types
- Can no longer open multiple title/source/text dialogs at once for notes
- Column width in the Multiple Send Results dialog fixed
- Negative numbers can now be put into "New note" co-ordinate boxes
- Internal database lost categories saved better (may cause some long-lost notes to appear)
- Better localisation of dates
- Searching by note id now works for all note classes, not just desktop
- Changing a note title in the Manage Choose dialog now works
- Fix for search field not being filled when storing a note in Manage
- Editing path links no longer strips the initial character of the friendly name
- Fix for search field not being filled when storing a note in Manage
- Saving styles from the context menu fixed
- Bulk moving stack windows now saves all positions correctly
New in Portable Stickies 10.0d (Feb 26, 2020)
- Changes:
- 01/01/1900 is now blank in the list in the Manage dialog
- Fixes:
- Fixed note Properties menu item to not display an error "Encountered an improper argument"
- Bug with [categories] table fixed better (not requiring two restarts of the app)
- Stand/Hang drop box in Settings is now set up correctly
- Stacking/unstacking status now gets saved better
- The "New folders are encrypted" setting now works (and isn't linked to "keep sorted")
- Data files on UNC shares are now supported
- Incoming network note styles are set
- The "scrollbars" setting for new notes is honoured
- Crash fixed after a note set to "solo" is slept or closed
- Saving content from the Manage list with a " in the title now works
- Altering the "Keep text contents encrypted" setting immediately updates the icon
New in Portable Stickies 9.0e (Jan 10, 2018)
- 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
New in Portable Stickies 9.0d (Jun 4, 2017)
- 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
New in Portable Stickies 9.0c (Jun 4, 2017)
- 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
New in Portable Stickies 9.0b (Jul 15, 2016)
- 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
New in Portable Stickies 9.0a (Jul 15, 2016)
- 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
New in Portable Stickies 8.0c (Feb 11, 2015)
- 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
New in Portable Stickies 8.0b (Feb 11, 2015)
- 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
New in Portable Stickies 8.0a (Feb 11, 2015)
- 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
New in Portable Stickies 7.1e (Nov 12, 2012)
- 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
New in Portable Stickies 7.1d (Jul 20, 2012)
- 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