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What it's for...

What it is...

How to Use it...

New Notes

The Open Notes List

The About Box

Terminating  the Sticky Notes! Application


What it's for...

Have you ever looked around at computer monitors?  Most of them are framed with small, yellow sticky-notes..."Call Bob about lunch", "Pick up some Milk", "Judy 555-4321" and so on.  They can fall off, they can get misplaced, they look awful.   And, you run out of room very fast!


What it is...

Sticky Notes! is a Windows application that allows you to post "sticky notes" on your Windows Desktop...As many as you have computer resources to hold.  And Sticky Notes! will save your outstanding notes for you...you don't have to worry about system crashes or turning off your machine while Sticky Notes! is running.  It will even remember where you last positioned the buttons so that you can place it where you find it most convenient on your desktop.


How to Use it...

Sticky Notes! has two buttons.  Use the New button to create new notes to post.  Use the List button to display a list of all your notes.


New Notes

A new note comes up looking like this.  The areas of the note are the Caption, the Note Body, the Date and Time, the Hide Desktop Icon check box, the OK button and the Discard button.  Additionally, there are the standard Windows title bar and minimize button.

The cursor is positioned in the Caption area.  You simply start typing to replace the text.  If you wish to append characters to the existing caption, press the END key and start typing.

After you have entered a caption, you may press the TAB key to move the cursor to the note area.  You can keep typing until you finish your note, get tired or run out of space.  The maximum size your note can be is 1024 characters (this includes spaces).

When you press the ENTER key, Sticky Notes saves your note into a note file, minimizes your note to an icon and displays your caption under the note.

If you have a lot of notes and don't want to see them all at the same time, you can  hide individual notes by clicking on the Hide Desktop Icon check box.  Your note is still saved, but it does not show up on the desktop.

When you are through with a note and want to get rid of it, you can press the Discard button.  This deletes the note completely.


The Open Notes List

When you press the List button, the Open Notes window pops up.  The parts of this window are the Notes list, the Edit button, the Discard button, the New button, the About button and the Close List button.

If you click on one of the notes in the list and click on the Edit button, the selected note will be displayed.  You can make changes to the caption or the note body.  The date and time will not change.  You can also edit a note by double-clicking on one of the notes in the list.

The discard button will work on only one note at a time.  Select the note to discard by clicking on its entry in the list.  Then click on the discard button.  The note will be deleted from the list and its desktop icon removed.  CAUTION!  This is not undo-able!  Once a note is discarded, the Open Notes list will close.

The New button works the same way as the New button on the main Sticky Notes window.  Click on New and a new note will pop up.  The Open Notes list will close when  a new note is created.

The About button pops up the About box for Sticky Notes.

The Close List button closes the Open Notes list.


The About Box

Click on the OK button to close the About box.


Terminating  the Sticky Notes! Application

To exit Sticky Notes! double-click on the System Control box on the main Sticky Notes! window.  A message box will appear asking if you want to save your notes:

If you choose Yes, Sticky Notes! will save your notes and terminate.  If you choose No, Sticky Notes! will discard all your notes and terminate.  CAUTION!  THIS IS NOT UNDO-ABLE!  If you choose Cancel, Sticky Notes! will simply continue to run.


Glossary of Terms

application

About button

buttons

Caption

Close List

crashes

cursor

Date and Time

desktop

Discard button

Edit button

Hide Desktop Icon check box

List button

New button

Note Body

OK button

resources

sticky-notes

Windows


application

A computer program.


About button

A button which, when pressed, displays information about the Sticky Notes! product.


buttons

Areas of the screen which respond to mouse clicks by giving the appearance of having been pressed and initiating some program action.


Caption

The area of a note which will be displayed underneath the Sticky Notes! desktop icon when a note is saved.  The Caption will also display in the Open Notes list.


Close List

A button which, when pressed, causes the Open Notes list dialog to disappear.


crashes

Unexpected terminations of programs or "freezing" of the computer keyboard.


cursor

The flashing indicator showing where typed text will appear.  Also used to refer to the mouse pointer.


Date and Time

A line showing when a note was created.


desktop

The entire screen on which Windows displays active applications.


Discard button

A button which, when pressed, causes a note to be erased from the desktop and deleted from the Open Notes list.


Edit button

A button which, when pressed, retrieves and displays an active note.  Pressing this button has the same effect as double-clicking a note in the Open Notes list.


Hide Desktop Icon check box

A check box which can be used to indicate whether or not a particular note will be displayed as a minimized icon when the OK button is pressed.


List button

A button which, when pressed, displays the Open Notes dialog.


New button

A button which, when pressed, causes a new Note window to pop up ready for entering caption and note information.  The Date and Time displayed are the current system date and time.


Note Body

The area of the Sticky Note where a detailed note can be typed.


OK button

A button which, when pressed, causes a note to be saved.  This button is also triggered when the ENTER key is pressed.


resources

Memory and disk space available on your computer.


sticky-notes

Bits of paper with a portion of one side gummed to allow "posting" of notes on available surfaces.


Windows

A graphical user interface product by Microsoft Corporation for use on IBM-compatible computers.