NANY 2018 Release: Stick A Note (Enhancement)

[anandcoral]

NANY 2018 Entry Information

Application Name	Stick A Note
Version	3.0.1
Short Description	Stick a text note to a window of program or document. The note shows only on that window and moves with it.
Supported OSes	WinXp and above
Web Page	https://sites.google...site/stickanote/home
Download Link	https://sites.google...kanote/home/download

Screenshots
Note supports Unicode
NANY 2018 Release: Stick A Note (Enhancement)

Enable debug in Setting
NANY 2018 Release: Stick A Note (Enhancement)

Set note size
NANY 2018 Release: Stick A Note (Enhancement)

Description
This is enhancement of my existing app Stick A Note, which was long overdue.
It has the most requested features now, as below.

- Notes now supports Unicode. You can now write notes in languages other than English.
- You can now set size of the notes up to 600 pixels wide and height. Open Settings \ Note Settings.
- Enable debug mode to create a "debug.log" file of notes process. Helps to find out why a note is not showing. Open Settings.

[mat2016]

Wow, this is very nice. I've been using Stickies 9.0c for a while to make notes for specific web pages or documents, but, your program is much simpler. Stickies has Rich Text with bullets, bold, italic, etc., but, for the most part I have no need of text formatting. Stickies has a myriad of other features but a lot of it is overkill.

What do the stickies match on: app name, window title or some other combination? I'm just curious. I will be working with Stick A Note.

Stickies stores Window Title and Program Class and allows you to use asterisks wildcards in the Title.
So, in Firefox, if you wanted a sticky to make notes for any YouTube videos you watch, you can enter:

Title: *YouTube*
Class: MozillaWindowClass

You may want to allow users to not match the full Window Title and enable wildcards to make your program much more versatile.

Thanks again.

[mouser]

Nice work 

[mouser]

Seems a substantial enough release to qualify as a NANY 2018.

[anandcoral]

Thank you Mouser

Regards,

Anand

[anandcoral]

Hi mat2016, thanks for feedback. I will see the requested features.

Regards,

Anand

[mat2016]

Anand,

I apologize. I didn't realize that any part of the Window Title can be used to match on a Note. That will do what I was talking about as long as the application name is part of the Window Title. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Outlook, etc. add their name to the Title. Or are you grabbing the Program Name and appending it automatically?

Thanks again for your application.

Mike

[anandcoral]

Hi mat2016,

I am capturing the title of the window and formatting it as a file name. The user can add/edit text of this title.
I am matching the text with the active window title and showing the notes.

You can see the process in the debug.log file now.

Regards,

Anand

[anandcoral]

Stick A Note website updated.
Link of program removed from 1st message. Please download from website.

Regards,

Anand

[IainB]

@anandcoral: Thanks for the update to v3.0.1.   
I appreciate the changes/improvements, though had not requested them myself. (Improvements are always welcome.)

[mat2016]

Anand,

I don't suppose you would think about sharing the program code. Any additions I would make, I would send back to you in case you wanted to incorporate them into a future version. There's just a few changes I'd like to see. If not, I may write my own.

Thanks for your time,

Mike

[anandcoral]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your suggestion.

When I get old and can not do justice to my apps, I will open them up
Feature request are always welcome, though it may take time for me to complete them as I have huge pressure of my bread and butter job.

Regards,

Anand

[mat2016]

Anand,

As a challenge to myself and in order to add the ability to move and size Note windows in addition to coloring and text size, I decided to write my own program. Similar to yours, only one note is displayed at a time related to the active window. I call it Relevant Notes and it stores all data into one INI file in the same directory. I know you are busy with real work so this was an opportunity for me to be creative.

The blog page for the program is Relevant Notes

Mike

[anandcoral]

Hi Mike,

Good work. Keep it up 

Regards,

Anand

[nogojoe]

Anand,

As a challenge to myself and in order to add the ability to move and size Note windows in addition to coloring and text size, I decided to write my own program. Similar to yours, only one note is displayed at a time related to the active window. I call it Relevant Notes and it stores all data into one INI file in the same directory. I know you are busy with real work so this was an opportunity for me to be creative.

The blog page for the program is Relevant Notes

Mike

-mat2016 (February 10, 2018, 12:39 PM)

Nice work there Mike have it working well on the computer .  any chance of doing something like this for an Ipad

[Ath]

Anand,
After using SaN lightly and evaluating it for a while, I have a few feature requests:

• Note window smaller than the current minimum of 200x200, 50x50 or even less would be nice (I understand you need some space for the edit, settings and X links/buttons, but shortening to a single letter and adding a tooltip would help achieve that)
• Change text size, it's no problem for me if all text is set to that size, rtf-capability would be nice and also handle the next request
• Text color changeable, like change text size, no problem for me if all text is set to that color
• Optional transparent background, so the content behind the note is, at least partially, visible, now it is often blocking important content or UI features (buttons) of websites, and after hiding it I often forget to show it again
• Configurable display-location, so it can be moved to a less-important-content corner

I hope you can realize some of this before next NANY...

TIA!

[anandcoral]

Hi Ath,

Thanks for the feedback.

1. 200 x 200 is the reasonable small size I found. Still I will try to give smaller options.
2. rtf or html compatibility is not possible as of now. I will try to give text/font option for whole note.
3. Will try color selection for text, as whole.
4. Will  try for transparent or translucent notes.
5. This is most asked feature, will try it.

Also will try for note move and size via mouse.

Well I said "will try"
At present I am in my year end work pressure (31 March is the account closing in India for tax purpose) for my accounting software users.

Regards,

Anand

[IainB]

@mat2016:

Anand,
As a challenge to myself and in order to add the ability to move and size Note windows in addition to coloring and text size, I decided to write my own program. Similar to yours, only one note is displayed at a time related to the active window. I call it Relevant Notes and it stores all data into one INI file in the same directory. I know you are busy with real work so this was an opportunity for me to be creative.
The blog page for the program is Relevant Notes
Mike

-mat2016 (February 10, 2018, 12:39 PM)

Just thought I should mention that your Relevant Notes.exe app. file is registering as a virus:

• Trojan:Win32/Bitrep.A - SEVERE |Detected with Windows Defender Antivirus

Neither Malwarebytes nor WinDefender see it as a threat when they scan the .ZIP file though. WinDefender found it in just the app folder.

However, when the .zip file is sent to https://www.virustotal.com/ , it is detected as a virus (of differing types) by 12 engines - including "Microsoft"!?   

(I posted this here as it seemed to be the applicable discussion thread.)

[mat2016]

IainB,

I am not the least surprised by the false positives. I've been putting up with those a lot this year. I'm in the process of doing away with any compiling of my scripts and am currently writing what I call AHK Script Center, which will manage anyone's set of scripts: list them, edit them, run or autorun them, etc. I plan to post up info for that in time for NANY 2019.

I have found exactly three other small interpreted languages that can do a lot of what AutoHotkey does. And they don't register on VirusTotal. They are REBOL, Open Euphoria and Tcl/Tk. All of these languages are over 20 years old but I've not heard much about them as they are not Python, Javascript, etc. LOL.

After spending lots of night researching these languages as possible AHK replacements, I decided it's easier to only post up text scripts along with AutoHotkey.exe for users that don't want to install AutoHotkey.

If you want to play with a demo you can download the Mega Test zip file below. This page has screen shots also of AHK Script Center. I need other users to try this and give me feedback.

Mikeys Mega Script Download

Thanks,

mat2016