Portable Stickies Changelog

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