Hello,

I modified yyys notes-pannel as i wanted it. (see: http://www.desktopsidebar.com/forums/index...?showtopic=1925 )

Released: November 8th 2004

Latest Update February 3rd 2005
*small adjustments (spelling)
*Translation updated

Update November 9th 2004
*problem with notes-counter bachground-color fixed
*problem with "text overlaping notes-icons" solved
*problem with notes-counter text-color fixed

The new Features are

*set Titel for each note, to be displayed in the Desktop Sidebar
*sizable edit/add dialogs
*notes get indented in Desktop Sidebar
*some minor-improvements
*auto-fit panel should work now
*nice icons
*edit a note in the (popup-) detailswindow!!
*option to enable/disable note-saving outof the detailswindow

known Bugs
*some buttons are displayed too big (minor)
*Translation for "Xtras"-Button is displayed as "Xtra" (minor)

workflow of new features:
if you enable the saving outof the detailswindow, the windows gets Pinned as soon as you change the text (this is, because the window might disapear while typing the new text = bad!).
if you want to RESET the text to the original press the ESCAPE-key.
the windows stayes pinned, so you will have to close it manually.

if you disable the new option, the window wont get pinned on any automated action!


NOTE
This panel is only tested by me!!
your notes will most likely be lost on update or re-installation. so back them up (copy+paste)
*Backup your notes before installation!!
*the panel is now found under "Third Party .Net Panels"

please download the updated version.

INSTALLATION
*Download the attached file and open it while Desktop Sidebar is loaded.


I'm open for any bugreports or comments on the known bugs. I tried to fix them, but it didnt work for me.

THANKS go out to all the nice people on this board for the support!

moon44

Screenshot attached.

Very nice...working quite well...

Coult69

I think you better post it in the Extension Exchange too
That's a great panel - much better than mine I like your work. Really good Now how about being able to delete and change the order of single notes ?

How do you put the icons in the IListOutput?

You might want to give it a different name than just 'new'. Could make things harder to figure out for joe blow to figure out which one they have or whatnot.

Just call it "Notes Editor v.2" and I'll tell NeilN to delete the old panel's thread. About the Etension Exchange, you don't need activation E-mail, as far as I remember. You just need to log in using the password that you typed when creating a new account.
I'll delete my panel from there as soon as you put yours
You don't need to use drag and drop - you can do it with the context menu.

Great panel!
eitaneko - you can do it in two ways. I think that one is a bit harder to work with in C# (it is like the issue that once was with panel icons).
The "easier" method: make a DSSKIN file with a skin element for the icon. Then, use:

The exam is over, now its play time . I decided to try out latest build of Notes Editor 2.0

Unfortunately I found bugs. After successfully installing the panel I test it out by adding 2 notes. I discovered that the notes title in the panel is overlapped with their icon. Checkout the screen shot below.

Another one is the notes title color in the panel didnt stick. When I change DS skin, the color change to black and purple instead of staying with original color of red and orange.

I'm using DS86 with XPSP2.

EDIT: the overlapped bug gone when I make adjustment with its panel properties.

I updated the panel to a new version.

I modified my start-post and added the new version. so please re-download it!

thank you for the bugreports!

NOTE: the panel is now found under "Third Party .Net Panels"

moon44

Great job!!! Latest build fixed all display bug I reported before

But there are still minor adjustments to be make.
- I didnt know that when I edit text via details window, details window would auto pin because the button didnt change to pinned state. It only change its state when I hover the button.

- The note counter text. Can you set the shadow to follow skin setting? If no shadow are set then the text also will have no shadow under it.

- A minor bug: when changing skin, the note counter text change its color to black and its shadow to white. But when I revert back to last used skin, the color just stay black.

Thanks for the update.

I'm sure someone will help. Ask GoMa or yyy... they will know how to do it

You can set the panel to use the same text color that the skin uses by adding the inherit line:

It doesn't work since you set also the text color. You can inherit a setting that you set in the dsskin. Dlete the line that sets the text color and it will work. You can also delete the shadow lines.

I think you should talk to NeilN about the Extension Exchange. I don't remember that you need to wait for activation.

You are right, it also doesn't work for me all the times I'll check it.

I see that the panel shows a seperator only after the notes counter - how did you do it?

It's a nice idea, especially after you put the small notes icons. But if you disabled the seperators of the IListOutput how is there a separator for the first item - the notes counter ?

Ok - that's what I thought

Why do you have to edit the note to be able to delete it? Good idea that you can delete it from there, but you should also be able to delete from the context menu (right click on the note itself).

Also, an option to have the details not popup would be nice (I know you can do it for the entire sidebar, but I need the details for other panels)

Nice panel -- thanks.

'bird

thank you yyy.

seems like i can edit the panel in the exchange.

my login was activated.

300, thats not bad. hope it brings some advantage to the people.

moon44

Nice to know you worked it out 300 is a few days is nice. I think that your upgrade is much better than the previous version of the panel This is one of the popular panels some I believe that many people will find your upgrade useful. Thanks for your work, I really appreciate this

your welcome. you know, i just did it for my own useability. if others get profits out of it, its even better!

moon44

Can you add a drag and drop option? It will be so usefull for me It can make it much easier to use the panel

I don't think it's hard. Well, that's your decision. An option to be able to change the order of the notes will be great

hi,

it took me some time, but i implemented a *changing-order* feature.

please test this beta .dll, backup the old one.

if everybody reports good results. ill update the package.

look for DSB crashes at exiting the DSB (had some while programming).

thank you!

moon44

i updated the file. now its .zip.

please try to download and test the new feature.

ill be able to update the whole package then.

thank you.

moon44

I don't understand how to use the *changing-order* feature you added. I tried dragging the notes but nothing happens.

Hey there,

I finally got around to testing this...sorry it took so long.

The added functionality works well, except that it seems to move the note ABOVE the note that I right click on. I don't know if this is from something else in DS or not (I am using the AIKON Skin right now and the Notes Editor is in a stack panel)

Other than that, it works great. Just what I need. Only other addition I can think of right now would be to add a delete function when right clicking. Right now I just see the 'empty' function, which clears all the notes, correct?

Thanks,

Coult69

thanks for testing!

im not able to reproduce the fault (not even in a stack).
I right-click on a note, press *up* and the right-clicked note moves UP

the deletion could be insered into the menue as well, ill check on that.

thank you so far!

moon44

Bizarre. I don't know what to tell you. I played with it some more with the same results. I hover over a note just to make sure by having the details box appear, I right click and try to move it up or down, but the note above it always moves, but the one I clicked on....

Coult69

I think I might know what the problem is. I'm afraid I don't use this version of the panel, b/c I haven't gotten to it yet, but I have a similar layout for the alarm panel and ran into some problems with that.

When you right click, a POINT is passed to the function that handles the context menu. That point is absolute, meaning that it is the point from the top left of the whole panel, not just the IListOutput. So if you ONLY have an IListOutput, then if you pass that point to GetRowFromPoint(), it would be correct. But you have an ITextOutput in the panel as well. So the point passed to the context menu is really BELOW the row you actually want to move. You have to subtract the coordinates of the ITextOutput to get the actual row you want to work with. Here is an example...

I think eitaneko is partially about this.
Try checking "show notes counter" - now everything is ok. Try unchecking it - the wrong note is being moved. moon44 is ALREADY subtracting the height of the ITextOutput I think, but ALWAYS, not only when the ITextOutput is actually visible.

I think you are right GoMa. I don't use this version of the panel, but it seems like he needs an extra boolean value in the code somewhere.

oh, i see, if i disable the notes counter the problem occures for me as well.

i thought i did that...mh... so, i will correct it! hope ill get to this soon.

moon44