SystemNOTE is a great way to help remind yourself of things. It displays a message (and even a picture) during your computer's startup and will even delay itself so you don't miss the message. If you prefer to remind yourself of something as you turn your computer off, SystemNOTE can handle that too. Many aspects of the operation of SystemNOTE can be adjusted through the new interface.
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This control panel is shareware, therefore if you use it then please pay the fee which is $10 (US funds or equivalent in local currency). Please send a cheque or money order (payable to Michael Maysmith) to:
K&B Software
3270 Upper Terrace
Victoria, B.C., Canada
V8R 6E6
By paying your shareware fees you can help a starving university student! He continues to release excellent software to fill up the huge gap in the small utilities category.
Special thanks to Harvey Lubin for the excellent graphics that I used in SystemNOTE and Greg Terry for forcing me to get this thing working!
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How to use SystemNOTE:
1) Drop SystemNOTE into the "Control Panels" folder of your "System Folder"
2) Open up SystemNOTE to configure it.
3) To configure a message for startup...
･Click on the 'Startup On' radio button to make SystemNOTE display your message at startup.
･Click on the 'Edit the startup message...' button to open the message preferences.
･Type in your own message into the box.
･Click on 'Set Picture...' to set a picture to be displayed with your message
-You must already have a picture on the clipboard, cutting out a picture from the scrapbook will
do. Click on the 'Paste' button to paste the picture into SystemNOTE. If you don't want a picture
displayed at startup then click 'None'. Click 'OK' to dismiss the dialog box.
･Click on 'Set Position...' to set the message position.
-Type the coordinates of the top-left of the message box into the 'Horizontal' and 'Vertical' text
fields. The little dialog box will move around the minature screen to show where the dialog box
will be positioned (relative to a 640x480 screen). Clicking on the 'Standard' buttons will set the
horizontal or vertical coordinates to a standard position (40 pixels from the top-left corner of the
screen). Click 'OK' to dismiss the dialog box.
･Click on 'OK' to dismiss the dialog box.
3) To configure a message for shutdown...
･Click on the 'Shutdown On' radio button to make SystemNOTE display your message at shutdown.
･Click on the 'Edit the shutdown message...' button to open the message preferences.
･Type in your own message into the box.
･Click on 'Set Picture...' to set a picture to be displayed with your message
-You must already have a picture on the clipboard, cutting out a picture from the scrapbook will
do. Click on the 'Paste' button to paste the picture into SystemNOTE. If you don't want a picture
displayed at shutdown then click 'None'. Click 'OK' to dismiss the dialog box.
･Click on 'OK' to dismiss the dialog box.
4) Close the SystemNOTE control panel and please PAY YOUR SHAREWARE FEES!
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Version Info:
v1.0:
-Initial release (Startup mode only)
v1.0.1:
-Fixed problem where the message would get displayed even though the control panel was turned off.
v1.5:
-Added ability to set picture and position (only through ResEdit though!)
-Released a separate application called SystemNOTE Shutdown to handle shutdown chores.
v1.6:
-Completely modified SystemNOTE Shutdown to work as an extension.
v2.0:
-Reworked entire interface of SystemNOTE
-Joined together SystemNOTE and SystemNOTE Shutdown into one control panel
-Simplified the interface and added the ability to edit picture and position.
-Modified the structure for storing preference information. This made much cleaner code for me.
-Haven't yet allowed position changes on shutdown message dialog box. Only possible through ResEdit.
