Notes Editor
by yyy Based on DS SDK Sticker Panel

Notes Editor v.2 has been released - Click here

Released on:July 8th 2004

Compatible:Desktop Sidebar Build 68 and above

Description:
The Notes Editor panel allows you to create and edit notes with Desktop Sidebar.

Features:
-Create and edit notes.
-Delete notes.
-Use notes with different colors.
-Text wrap.
-Insert text automatically.
-Multi language support.
-German translation-thanks to the great work of chrisskhc

Important
-When you first install the panel you may need to disable Auto Fit.

Installation Instructions:
Download the file attached and open it while Desktop Sidebar is loaded.

Dear user,
Thank you very much for using this panel I hope you enjoy it and find it very useful.
If you have any comments or if you find any bugs please report me in this thread.
Thank you .
If you want to get instructions about translating the panel or changing the text style,please PM me.I'll be glad if you post your translations it this thread.

Download (Translation bug fixed) :

The Notes Editor Panel is avilable now .Here is a screenshot of the panel:

Went right in. Thank you!!! Well done.

Thanks-You are the first downloader .Enjoy the panel.

I don't know I never have any luck installing these plugins this is the error message with this one.




I'm sure dsidebar is uptodate

Bugs List

1: Note text is hidden when autofit is turned on (see screenshot)
2: note title and text have shadows... ideally, title should be shadowed, not the content
3: large gap between title and content
4: feature request: show only title and show content only in details window
5: wordwrap doesnt work in details window
6: Feature request: enable wordwrap only in body of the note, not in the title
7: add the new note option to the context menu of the panel title. when i first created the panel, i had autofit on... and there was a very very small gap below the title which i had to carefully aim and right-click so that i could add a new note...
8: Feature request: save space by including notes counter in the title bar
9: feature request: ability to put the note as a sticky on the desktop when clicked on (similar to the outlook notes panel)
10: feature request: ability to change the order of the notes (now default is only the order in which the notes were created)
11: hyperlinks (web and local files please)
12: formatting

ok ill stop...

Good job yyy

Funny how we both used "sounds" when we are typing on a messageboard on the Internet.

This thread is the thread to use to reclaim the IP Panel. Though I think that yyy has already updated his dspackage with the correct install method.

Do the same process for IP Panel. Remove the existing traces, use the dspackage and you should get positive results. You should have no 3rd party panels in the program files DS folder. As the same for the dsidebarpia.dll, it should not be in there at all. You can use the dspackage files to reinstall your panels again.

You should expect an optional /codebase message and a successful installation of panel if you hit all the points above.

Yes just reloaded the latest version and it went in fine thanks

Major domo kudo's to yyy for making this panel the easiest to employ. Now, if I could only get the IP one to act with the same behaviour.

Thanks, Scott

Thank you all for your replies .I hope you enjoy the panel!

Stuffedtiger79:
First of all I would like you to know that I invested many efforts in making this panel and as a first version panel I thought it is enough.You should know that developers of panels for DS are limited in their ability to program.I can't do everything,just what DS allows me to do.
Thanks for your replies .
Now for the answers:
1: Note text is hidden when autofit is turned on (see screenshot)-I know,that's why I added the important section in red in the first post and I have already asked about it.
2: note title and text have shadows... ideally, title should be shadowed, not the content-First-there's no such thing as title All the text you are writing is considered as a note.About the colors-you can change it-go to %appdata%\desktop sidebar\plugins\NotesEditor\ and open the file NotesEditor.dsskin with notepad.Add to each color the lines that disable shadow(I hope you remmber how to do it since I forgot ) and that's it.
3: large gap between title and content-Again-the whole text is 1 note
5: wordwrap doesnt work in details window-Thanks for telling me,I hope I can fix it.
7: add the new note option to the context menu of the panel title. when i first created the panel, i had autofit on... and there was a very very small gap below the title which i had to carefully aim and right-click so that i could add a new note... -It is in the context menu-right click and you'll find it.
8: Feature request: save space by including notes counter in the title bar-Great idea I'll probably add this option,if I can do it.
9: feature request: ability to put the note as a sticky on the desktop when clicked on (similar to the outlook notes panel)-I can't do whatever I want.Such option will take a lot of hard work and time and it won't be considered as a panel but as another program.However-DS build 69 will have floating panels which will allow you to do it and I have already saw such feature on kdam's bugs list
10: feature request: ability to change the order of the notes (now default is only the order in which the notes were created)-I'll add it next version.
11: hyperlinks (web and local files please)-I didn't say that you can use hyperlinks.I'll try to do it next version.
12: formatting-It is a little bit hard for me to do it seperately from the dsskin file but you can customize the panel as you want.Just follow no. 2 above

I wrote a note but I cannot see what is in it. I suppose it will show, in the details window, the text of the note, but I pause the mouse pointer over the Note and .... nothing. Also I clicked twice in the note and the DS closed.

I'm sorry,can you try it again and tell me if it still happens?

hey yyy, thanks for your reply... i really do admire the work that the DS development team and all plugin developers are putting in. it really an awesome work that all you guys are doing and i can very well imagine the amount of time and affort that would go into this. i am sorry for my long list, i just thought that it was a really great panel. i do reallize it is easy to give ideas but take a lot of time and effort to implement them. my only intention was to offer all the suggestions i can to make your panel really really good. i will definitely wait patiantly for your future releases. i am already very impressed by the jobyou have done on the IPPanel and i have no doubt that you will do a similarly awesome job on this one too.

Thanks stuffedtiger79 .Always feel free to give ideas.I'm appreciate this.It helps the developers more than everything.

Kdam helps more.

kdam has about 450 bugs "on his shoulders" .I understand if it takes him some time to reply users.I do my best to give the best service to my panel's users.

Now it's OK vvv. The text message appears in the details window and in the notes panel, but it does not wrap the text.

Oooh no. It closed the DS again. When I clicked somewhere between the Note Title and the Note it closed the DS. And the notes disappeared.

A suggestion I think that the Notes panel should only show the First line of the Text or instead of showing the text show a number and the text in the details window only.

Thanks for reporting.I'm sorry to know that you have pronblems with using the panel .I'll try to fix it.You can turn off the text wrap so you want se the whole note inside the panel.

YYY

If you can add the possibility to set an alarm to each note
I will stop buggering everybody about this.
Is it possible at all?

If you want an alarm clock maybe I can work on something simple.Would you like it?

I think he means something like a reminder, not an alarm clock. For every note, you can set a time and it'll pop up a message with the note.

Yes but from other threads I saw that he prefers a real alarm clock so maybe I'll do it.

I think this feature should be incorporated in the current clock panel, rather than a whole new panel.

Yes,me either.But it seems like he can't wait to this to be done so I offer to do something temperory.

I don't think it's necessary, but if you want you can do it.

Some people just can't wait...

this is a good panel. now i can replace the notes panel. well i guess ill wait for a few bugs repaired before downloading it.

Thanks .You'll probably have to wait sometime because I'm working on some other panel which is very comlicated.Sorry .

Which?

That's a secret You'll see.But I really hope I will do it because that's a hard one.

*$#!#@!# How did you found out?

i loved it wonderful. Just one suggestion add the ability to rearrage the order of the notes. One again it is my favorite plugin yet besides Recylebin.

Thanks SecondImpact Enjoy the panel .
I'm sorry but I'm working on another panel now so it will take time.One of the features of the next version-if I decide to release it-will be the ability to change the order of the notes.

what delightful cocktail are you preparing for us all next yyy?

The problem is that I'm working now on fixing my computer .For some reason my Internet stopped working and I had to fix some stuff...
So this is another delay for the next verison.Also I want to make a new panel so it also delayes the release-sorry.
Basically next release will have most of the features you suggested.Maybe I'll think of something new.

this is worth waiting... i think. I will have to download this build if cant hold up much longer

Has anyone mentioned that it would be really nice to have the option to only display the first line of the note and the rest if you hover over it?

This is off topic, but nice star, yyy!

i did monaro. no 4 on my request list in page 1. lol.

I'm sorry to tell you that I decided to "freeze" the development of new panels
I'm thinking about making skins again .

buypole71,thanks-It is from crystal dlb.They said I can use it as an avatar image .
It is also like my "decription"(look under my nickname in the left side ).

making skins is now really easy thanks to the skin editor... you should leave that to lil kids like me and work on the hard things like panel development, which is more suitable for your talents and skills

Thank you .I don't know if it is better for me to make a new skin or to develop a new panel or maybe even to upgrade the notes editor panel
I'll have to think about it.

By the way-making skins can be as hard as developing a panel.I appreciate the work of skinners the same as the work of panel developers.

no no no.... pls upgrade the notes panel. when u done with it... u can start skinning