Stickies 6.5a

v6.5a
What's new since version 6.0c

New features

• API to allow integration with other applications
• Skin language v4 supported (scrollbars, alpha drawing, suggested default style)
• Typing [ followed by ] gives you a checkbox which can be double-clicked to alter its state
• Several buttons will repeat if the mouse button is held down (scroll up, scroll down, page up, page down, dimension conditions)
• A new GPO setting to log all network stickies to the server, for administrative monitoring
• Wildcards are now available for use with window classes when attaching
• Alt-space brings up the text context menu
• Advanced AttachShowSystemWindows=1 ini file setting to control whether additional windows are shown
  in the attach dialog
• Advanced AllowTransparentBackgrounds=1 ini file setting to control whether stickies colour can be
  set to the region colour

Fixes

• Some context-sensitive help was not opening correctly on the General options tab
• Attaching using a wildcard was not working correctly
• Storing an empty sticky no longer generates an error
• Warning about using a skin with regions is now displayed correctly pre-Windows 2000
• Stickies set to Autowidth near the right of the screen will now load back in their correct positions
• Context-sensitive help is now set correctly for the Change Title dialog, after other similar dialogs
  have been displayed
• Autowidth stickies now size the correct side as they're loaded
• Skin button action "attach" now works
• Tooltips are only created for buttons which have a conditional display when that condition is met
• Attached stickies can now be rolled up
• Sleeping for values larger than 99 would only sleep for 99 of that amount
• MAPI usage under Vista will no longer crash Stickies
• Double-clicking words inbetween two <<file://>> elements now works
• Crash caused by restoring a closed sticky when it's only just been modified fixed
• Crash when "Bring all stickies to front when one is clicked" is off, "Confirm closure" is on, and user clicks delete
  multiple times fixed
• Searching for terms in the Manage dialog which contain [ or ] no longer causes a problem
• Chinese IME drop menu "Candidate words" no longer closed mid-selection
• Copying a stored sticky within categories now copies the text of the sticky as well
• Starting a drag and drop in Manage, moving over the categories, and then not dropping onto a category no longer
  causes the category list selection to get "stuck"
• Crash when opening a context-menu search term from the Manage dialog fixed
• Pasting non-Western characters, and text from Office 2007 into a sticky works better
• Sizing the sticky by the bottom-right corner will no longer snap to a zero width or height
• Sizing the sticky by the bottom-left corner will no longer "disappear" the sticky when snapping is disabled

Changes

• Stickies brought back from store have a create date of when they were restored, not Jan 1970
• Tab order on the Sleep/Alarm dialog improved
• Blank stickies which have a title are now closed rather than deleted
• Single-clicking the task-tray icon while the Manage dialog is showing search results is much faster
• Context-sensitive help tooltips now use 8pt Tahoma, so non-Western characters can be displayed
• Improved handling of URL launching when a <<file://name with a space.dat>> is present on
  a sticky
• Exporting categories in the Manage dialog currently does so as plain text, not as RTF
• "Green" on the Font menu is now green rather than lime
• Font colour menu items text is now set to that colour
• Styles and Skin dialog skin preview improved - no more odd colours around it
• "Recurring" icon altered in Manage dialog to be less similar to the "Sleeping" icon
• The code which puts a sticky on the screen rewritten from scratch
• The "Double-clicking the title bar:" option now does only what it says, and doesn't also prevent skins from rolling