ShixxNOTE Changelog

What's new in ShixxNOTE 7.net Build 147

Mar 7, 2024

Fast scan of network neighborhood on program start up

New in ShixxNOTE 7.net Build 146 (Oct 13, 2023)

New in ShixxNOTE 7.net Build 145 (Mar 28, 2022)

New in ShixxNOTE 6.net (Jul 8, 2014)

New features:
When sending note to someone who doesn't have ShixxNOTE program installed, program tries to send message with Windows messaging system, and recipient receives message with note text. Sender and recipient must have Windows 2000/XP operating systems on theirs computers for this feature, or active and started WinPop program on Windows 95/98/Me.
In Send To Dialog when you double click on computer in Network Neigborhood list, computer is added to recipient list.
Close and hide note smoothly transparency effect added. Works only on Windows 2000/XP.
If program is running on Windows XP, cool controls for Windows 95/98/Me are removed and program have Windows XP look and feel.
When you are offline and you want to check for email notes program asks you if you want to check old email messages in your Inbox for email notes.
If there are no email notes after you click on "Check for email notes" message appears "No email notes found.".
When you send note to recipient(s) expiration and alarm info are trasferred also with note. In version 5.net this was not possible.
New field in "Sent from:" (Send to dialog) or in "Default sent from:" (Setting Network dialog) combo box control is added - "Name:". If user sender write his name in edit combo box, that name and sent time will appear in recipient(s) note title, and "Reply to ..." option in note menu will be disabled for that received note ("Anonymous" sender have also "Reply to ..." option disabled) because program doesn't know what is sender comp. name, IP address or email is.
Password must be entered twice when you check option in General Settings dialog "Lock 'Show all notes' main menu item with password". Also when you want disable that option password is asked but only once.
New default theme is new Blue theme and it is without border.
Option "Ask before delete note" is set to Yes as default in General settings dialog.
Splash screen changed to ShixxNOTE 6.net and version in exe file set to 6.net.
In Expire and Alarm dialogs date format is set to short date because it was long date format till now and some users experienced problems because long date was to big to fit in date field. So now it is short date format and it will fit for all users and countries.
New Splash bitmap is created which is shown at program startup.
Changed default title font name and size for new notes.
Tooltip (help tip) color was changed to yellow in all dialogs.
When Splash dialog is show at program start no window in taskbar is visible (this was happening only in Windows XP). Problem is solved, dialog is set to tool window.
New trial period for program is set. Now trial version have 30 days trial period.
New note default size is bigger and default note font size is larger. And new default theme is Brown.
New registration and Order link added (RegNow) instead Visage Service.
Changed text in Send To dialog from "Select group:" to "Select saved group:".
When text is selected then note menu items "Font" and "Text color" are changed to "Selected Font" and "Selected Text color".
In "Send Note To" dialog program is no longer excluding client computer name (your computer) from network neighborhood list. So now you can send note to yourself simply adding your computer name to recipient list with "Add" button.
Multi monitor restriction (moving note to another monitor) now can be set to "Yes" or "No". Currently this can be only configured on demand. But soon this feature will be implemented in Settings dialog so user can decide to change this option. Default is "No".
Automatic URL detection is enabled. So now as you type note text when auto URL detection is on, rich edit control is constantly checking typed text for a valid URL. Rich Edit text control now recognizes URLs that start with these prefixes: "http:", "https:", "mailto:", "ftp:", "file:", "gopher:", "nntp:", "telnet:", "news:" and "outlook:"). Rich Edit control also recognizes standard path names that start with "\\". When Rich Edit control locates a URL, it changes the URL text color and underlines the text.
Four default themes changed. "Pink - Gray" is now replaced with new cool theme "Dark Pink" also "Blue - Gray" to "Dark Blue" ; "Yellow - Gray" to "Dark Green" and "Orange - Gray" to "Dark Orange".
When you delete or hide note and you have Windows XP or higher then note disappears smoothly. Transparency effect is used. But also now transparency effect depends on implemented time factor.
Detect Windows Version() function is now corrected and now all Windows version are properly detected and depending on Windows version program will use transparency effects or not.
Bug fixes:
When the program starts, notes are not resized so many times before they show up, like before (bug fix). Works only on Windows 2000/XP.
When a note is imported, exported, opened or saved all text remains selected (only on Windows XP). Now that BUG is fixed.
When option Randomly change themes for new notes is set to Yes and Default border is set to Yes program didn't works fine, there was no borders on some notes. Now this BUG is fixed and program works correctly.
More than 20 note recipients now can be added in a Saved Group, problem solved.
Buffer-overflow and silent-flood attack are no more threat when receiving note. Security bug fix.
Tray icon disappearance in some cases is now solved. Program tray icon is now always visible.
Sometimes received note(s) were lost after program startup. Now this problem is solved and all received notes will be visible after computer restart. Important bug fix.
Program was crashing after clicking on "Exit ShixxNOTE" in main tray icon menu. Modification was done on source code. EndReadMailThread() function is removed now from DestroyWindow() function because handle for that thread was already released. That was cause of the problem. Now problem is solved.
After pressing key "Alt Gr" on your keyboard while typing some text which contains "@" sign (e-mail address for example) strange characters would appear afterwards. Also sometimes "Find Dialog" showed after pressing "F" key afterwards, it worked like you pressed "Ctrl + F" keys. Now all those problems are solved.
It was unable to type "[" character in your note text. Now all this problems is solved.
"Check for Email notes" didn't work properly. ShixxNOTE email note(s) which is in your Inbox was not displayed on your screen as a note when you click on main note menu item "Check for Email notes". Problem is solved. Line Feed character "\n" (ASCII code 10) and Carriage Return character "\r" (ASCII code 13) are removed from received email note data text. Now email note(s) are displayed properly after clicking on option "Check for Email note" in main tray icon menu. If there is no email note(s) you get information message box.