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Stickies Changelog

What's new in Stickies 10.1d

Apr 4, 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 Stickies 10.1c (Oct 15, 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 Stickies 10.1b (Mar 25, 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 Stickies 10.1a (May 28, 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 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 Stickies 10.0c (Jan 21, 2020)

  • 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

New in 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 Stickies 9.0d (Jan 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 Stickies 9.0c (Aug 29, 2016)

  • 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 Stickies 9.0b (Jul 4, 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 Stickies 9.0a (Apr 25, 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 Stickies 8.0c (Feb 9, 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 Stickies 8.0b (Sep 16, 2014)

  • 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 Stickies 8.0a (Jun 17, 2014)

  • 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 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 Stickies 7.1d (May 8, 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

New in Stickies 7.1c (Feb 25, 2012)

  • New features:
  • API event: 507 desktop sticky
  • API event: 508 deleted closed sticky
  • API command: get list closed
  • API command: get closed encoded
  • API command: get desktop rtf
  • Changes
  • Optimised the Attaching code, and also decreased the check frequency back to once a second, reducing CPU usage
  • Input focus in the Sleep dialog changes automatically as you alter options
  • Skin buttons to change the pen width now alter the cursor when you use them
  • Tab stops are removed when rebuilding the search index
  • Menu items in the Manage dialog are disabled when they can't be used
  • The hash character (#) can now be used in searches in the Manage dialog
  • Pressing F5 in the Manage dialog refreshes the view
  • Sizing the tree and list elements in the Manage dialog is now smoother
  • Deleting items in the Manage dialog list will keep the cursor position
  • Storing an image sticky with no title will set the title as the sticky ID instead the title of being blank
  • Bullet indent level fixed at the same for all bullet types
  • Fixes:
  • Crash as Attached stickies appear or disappear fixed
  • Changing what happens in Options when double-clicking the title bar no longer causes note to unroll
  • The default value for user1, user2 and user3 are now set in more places
  • Deleting one stored sticky reduces the total count by one, not two
  • Sleep dialog reporting "That time has already passed" on some systems, fixed
  • Restoring a stored sticky with autowidth set to the desktop better sets the width
  • Sizing the left hand side of a sticky with locked content now works as expected
  • Setting the title of stickies now returns input focus to that note afterwards, when "Clicking one sticky makes all stickies visible" is not checked
  • Custom skin selections are no longer returned to the default skin when clearing the "Enable scrollbars" in Options
  • Crash when an image is resized very small fixed

New in Stickies 7.1b (Feb 25, 2012)

  • New features:
  • API: added "get snap" command
  • API: "do new encoded" (supersedes "do new sleeping encoded")
  • Pen cursor in an image sticky updates with colour and size
  • NoRTLKeys=1 ini file setting to disable the control+shift RTL toggle keypress
  • Changes
  • Doesn't quit if it can't create the tray icon
  • Stickies woken permanently have the original ID
  • Sped up window attach check rate to ten times a second
  • Sticky titles altered from "ASticky" to "ASticky: 243978539047"
  • "On top" and "not on top" notes are added to bulk action lists separately
  • Now logs why/how stickies was exited
  • Attached stickies with alarms set will now show for for their alarm when their window is not present
  • Now remembers the last backup directory used
  • No longer restores last selected category in Manage, therefore fixing a "not waking" bug under Windows 7
  • Fixes:
  • No longer always saves data file as app shuts down
  • Fixed problem with sizing Google list columns in Options
  • Font MRU list now actually works, rather than just filling up once and stopping
  • Fixed bug with pen colour skin elements not always updating
  • Periodic sync' controls are now disabled on the Networking tab when networking is disabled
  • Can't now choose New Sticky/Category from the File menu in the Manage dialog when recurring is selected
  • Buttons on a skin which disappear when the note loses focus now also take their tooltip with them
  • Setting 'ghost' off when it was already off ended up putting it on
  • API problem with waking recurring stickies with "prevent duplicate" enabled resolved
  • Sharing violation on Stickies load error message path fixed
  • No longer changes a sticky modified date when getting a friends list or updating the sender
  • Only visible notes are added to bulk move/action list
  • Bug with rolling up not refreshing tooltip locations fixed
  • Bug with tooltips for elements dependant on "image" not updating as one becomes an image fixed
  • Bug with elements dependant on focus not redrawing correctly fixed
  • No longer responds to any API commands until app is completely ready for them

New in Stickies 7.1a (Feb 25, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Text can be dragged/dropped between stickies, and other applications which support text drag/drop
  • Stickies can be set to have a fixed bottom, so they autosize and roll/unroll upwards
  • Skins can now draw on the background of text stickies
  • If an icon named "stickies.ico" is found in the application directory it will be used for the tray icon instead of the default
  • Text formatting copy and apply button, and keyboard shortcuts (alt-f and alt-v)
  • New API command: do netsend address 1.2.3.4
  • New API command: do saveini
  • New tool to draw arrows in image stickies (press 'a' to select it)
  • Changes:
  • Sticky attribute no longer written to the ini file when not used
  • Debug logging the creation of a sticky now details why it was created
  • Double-clicking a search result item in Manage takes you to that item in the category in which its located
  • The Date: header in SMTP emails now include the timezone
  • Manage dialog status bar gap increased for Windows 7
  • Holding shift as a new sticky is created no longer sets the new sticky as an image sticky
  • The default keyboard shortcut for show/hide all is now win-control-shift-s
  • Added "months" to the "every" section of the Recurrance dialog
  • Luminance slider added to colour selection dialog (only for the default English language)
  • Setting an individual sticky skin will start with the old skin file in the file dialog
  • The requirement for registration for PDA stickies has been removed
  • Browsing for skins from Options now also browses 'ini' file types
  • GDI+ is used to draw smoother lines and circles in image stickies
  • Control-shift-l toggles lock contents
  • "Confirm sticky closure" now also asks when closing empty stickies
  • Friends dialog resized for wide and short screens (only for the default English language)
  • "Close" when right-clicking a Closed sticky in the Manage dialog is now "Delete"
  • Line drawing in image stickies optimised for less flicker
  • Performing a "Save Now" (control-shift-s) shows a tray icon ballon
  • Sticky window Z-order is now maintained
  • Running "stickies.exe -" will launch the app, wait 3 seconds, and then create a new note
  • Alternate mode for colour picker dialog for those having trouble with it
  • Changing the text colour with the mouse wheel as it's being placed now also alters the current pen colour
  • Open the context menu mid-draw will now allow you to complete drawing the item afterwards
  • Fixes:
  • The help file now always opens
  • When performing a bulk "Save As", the first text sticky encountered no longer halts the operation
  • Performing user1/2/3 actions in a skin now update tooltips
  • Bulk saving multiple images now remembers the last image type
  • sti files are better recognised
  • Debug logging records the sticky id when starting and stopping alarms rather than window id
  • Incoming image network stickies now create the "images" folder if it doesn't already exist
  • Clearing an alarm on a desktop sticky no longer throws a spurious "That time has passed" error
  • Error with a store category not updating and needing a manual refresh when a sticky is stored fixed
  • Choosing a colour in the Manage dialog now sets the previous sticky colour, rather then just being yellow
  • Mouse no longer gets "stuck" when sizing the bars in the Manage dialog
  • Empty stickies will no longer sometimes show a superfluous scrollbar
  • The scroll bar is more accurately drawn when dragging to move position
  • The skin button action to 'Open context menu' now opens the image menu in image stickies
  • A crash when using the registry to specify a path to use for data which didn't exist, fixed
  • New 'Googles' names are no longer corrupted
  • Inserting a checkbox in the Manage dialog no longer moves the cursor to the next line
  • RedoOnTops() no longer called when "stickies are seperate windows" mode is set
  • Style preview font colour is now set, and not always black
  • Changing the title of a sleeping/closed/recurring sticky performance increase
  • Using "stickies.exe -close" now closes the app gracefully

New in Stickies 7.0b (Feb 25, 2012)

  • Rolled stickies are now also hidden at startup when the "Start Stickies with all notes hidden" is checked
  • The menu focus colour is now correct on all versions of Windows
  • "None" hard-coded English word replaced with IDS_NOBULLETS in translations
  • Editing titles in the Manage dialog is now enabled only when it should be
  • Can no longer backup into, and thus over the top of, the main Stickies data directory
  • Crashes eliminated when dragging multiple stickies to a Store category
  • Dragging image stickies from Stored to Sleeping/Recurring no longer loses the image
  • Isn't so greedy about taking shift/control keypresses
  • menu removes when right-clicking the Recurring category in the Manage dialog
  • Fixed sending stickies to a PPC generating three lines of junk, and losing the title

New in Stickies 7.0a Beta 1 (Sep 28, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Image stickies
  • Unicode titles
  • "Show System windows" checkbox in Attach dialog
  • Attached stickies can be set to only appear if the window is visible (not minimised)
  • "Snap back to transparent" option
  • Sticky ID added to properties
  • 32 new API commands
  • New sticky from clipboard
  • Sleep until / Tomorrow added to Sleep menu
  • PDA keys can now be entered in Stickies
  • Text background highlighting
  • stickies.1wk now written after one week of continuous operation
  • Live preview of setting transparency
  • Control-F now searches text within a sticky
  • Stickies can be moved directly from any category to any other in the Manage dialog
  • Backup function
  • Drop shadow option
  • Font name MRU list
  • F2 edits the sticky title
  • Sticky colour can be set in the Manage dialog
  • Sticky colour is now shown in the Manage dialog
  • New sticky "force title on create" option
  • Individual Desktop stickies can be hidden/revealed in the Manage dialog
  • RTL (right-to-left) default option for new stickies, and left shft+control / right shift+control to set paragraphs
  • Recovery dialog for when Stickies detects an error with the data file
  • "Ghost" mode for Desktop stickies can be set from the Manage dialog so they're not clickable
  • Different Stickies can have different skins (alt-s to choose, shift-alt-s to return to default)
  • "Locked stickies are also frozen in place" option
  • "Rolled stickies have an alternate position" option. Hold shift as you toggle rolled to reset
  • Two new global shortcuts, "new sticky from clipboard" and "show manage dialog"
  • New sizing method - hold alt and click near the edge of a text sticky to resize it
  • A sync of Friends can now be set to happen every X minutes
  • Fixes:
  • Tab order fixed on Properties dialog
  • Tab order fixed on Manage dialog
  • Tabbing around the options dialog now works better
  • Stickies complely within, or surrounding others, are now correctly included in bulk operations
  • Bug when unable to store multiple using bulk select fixed - the OK button is no longer grayed out
  • "DLL not found" error better handled
  • Closing an attached and visible sticky now discards the attach information
  • Occasional failure to snap bug fixed
  • Links in the About dialog now open more reliably
  • Editing the wake time of a sleeping sticky now sets the "user" checkboxes correctly
  • Can now add file associations under 64-bit Windows (but still not remove them)
  • Double-control taps to bring up the favourite friend list are now more reliable
  • Storing a sticky using a skin button now works correctly
  • Bulk-storing a number of stickies sets the right title for the sticky clicked
  • Enabling SMTP email without specifying an email address now displays an error
  • Changes
  • It's now clearer the window title and class can be edited in the Attach dialog
  • sstore.ini can no longer be imported
  • Colour picker dialog improved
  • "Default height for text" is disabled when scrollbars are disabled
  • Version of Stickies written into data file
  • "Open Friends dialog" has moved from Control-F to Control-Shift-F
  • The default for dragging from stored to desktop is now move, not copy
  • The last selected category in the Manage dialog is now stored
  • Manage dialog can now be maximised
  • Sleep for > 6 added
  • Trying to sleep or set an alarm in the past now displays an informative message
  • Alarm borders now fade instead of flashing
  • The return code form file:// links is now added to the debug log
  • Windows 7 is now recognised
  • Added "Sender:" and "Date:" SMTP headers
  • Best available Windows file open/save dialog is now used
  • Rolled Up / Unrolled menu items
  • Right-click menu item in Manage to edit properties of sleeping/recurring/attached
  • Command line options:
  • -close
  • -shc:on
  • -shc:off
  • -recover
  • -norecover
  • Options dialog rearranged and some text updated for better use of screen, and to keep similar options together. Styles dialog integrated into the Options dialog, and an "Apply now" button added for skin preview
  • Alt-r toggles rolled mode
  • Alt-c inserts a checkbox
  • Number of selected stickies disaplayed when performing bulk operations
  • Triple-clicking a line now also selected the CR at the end of the line
  • The -hidden command line option is now an checkbox in options
  • Long list of "ASticky" entries in Task Manager removed
  • Arial font changed to "Arial Unicode MS" in font list
  • Closing the application appears to happen faster
  • No application restart required to change the "Clicking one sticky makes all stickies visible" option
  • Closing a sticky doesn't bring forward another when the "Clicking one sticky makes all stickies visible" option is unchecked
  • The text area no longer shows when a sticky using a skin with the "rolled height" larger than the "top gap" is rolled up
  • The large text at the top of the About dialog uses a better font
  • Stickies can now be sized from the top edge and corners
  • Can no longer set a style and then immediately open it by holding shift
  • Control-s is now "Save As"
  • Exporting to CSV from the Manage dialog now writes a heading row
  • The default skin title grab area is wider to also cover the "Attached" indicator

New in Stickies 6.0b (Mar 10, 2007)

  • Fixes
  • Bug meaning locked stickies can be change after being unrolled fixed
  • Recurring stickies now have the correct create date, not a copy of the original
  • "Don't duplicate" was only intermittantly working depending on on-top status at sleep time
  • Pressing alt-enter with the Friends top item selected no longer causes a crash
  • Close button mouseover now drawn correctly
  • Unrolling a sticky using a skin which doesn't support rolling would cause it to disappear until Stickies was restarted
  • "stickies.exe -" now obeys the default settings for a new sticky
  • Creating any new stikcy no longer forces on the desktop "set drop shadow" setting
  • Some keyboard accelerators added to the task-tray menu for the default English
  • Minimum height wasn't being adhered to at sticky create time with some skins
  • Tooltips are now always set correctly at Stickies start time with a non-default skin set
  • Changes
  • "Unlock/lock" action available on skins
  • Can now snap to other stickies when shift-bulk-moving
  • Left-click to place the cursor at a specific location, and then press and click at a different location to select the text in-between
  • Setting an alarm into the past removes it
  • Single-item right-click menu pops up on snoozing for clarity
  • Save As style guesses at a font style and colour now rather than copying the default style font
  • Message-ID now written into the headers for SMTP mails