Copyright: Copyright (c) 1994 Looking Glass Tech.


Stickies! Lite Version 2.5

Using Stickies! Lite

Basic Concepts

Hints and Tips

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts

Frequently Asked Questions

Configuring Notes

Dragging Files into the Active Set

Importing and Exporting Notes

Printing

Menu Reference

Main Program Menu

Note Menu

Looking Glass Technologies

Registration Information

Technical Support

Our Company Philosophy

Acknowledgments


Basic Concepts

Active Set

Capacities and Limitations

Editing Notes

Evaluation vs. Enhanced Version

Frequently Asked Questions

Menu Types

Notes


Active Set

Your active set is that set of notes that is on your Windows desktop when Stickies! Lite is running.  This includes notes that are minimized (they appear as icons) or hidden.

The notes in your active set are automatically saved to the file STLITE.SAV when you shut down Stickies! Lite or Windows, and they are automatically restored to your desktop when you run Stickies! Lite again.  If you need or want to make sure your notes are saved to disk, but you want Stickies! Lite to remain active, you can use the Ctrl-W shortcut key.

See also

Arrange Notes Menu

Create a Note

Manage Notes Menu

Printing


Capacities and Limitations

All programs have limits.  Here are Stickies! Lite's:

Maximum characters per note:	30,000

Maximum number of active notes:	12

Maximum notes in an export file:	1,000

Maximum title size for a note:	40 characters

Maximum length for user or group name:	40 characters

Minimum display font for a note:	1 point

Maximum display font for a note:	36 points

See also

Lite vs Pro


Editing Notes

Editing the text in notes is very similar to editing in Windows in general, and experienced Windows users should feel right at home.

The text you enter is inserted at the caret, and you can delete individual characters with the Delete or Backspace keys.  Your text will automatically word wrap to fit the current width of the note, and will reformat if you change your note's width.  If your text requires more lines than can be displayed in the note at once, you can scroll with the Page Up, Page Down, and cursor keys to see all your text, or you can turn on a scroll bar by using the Ctrl-L shortcut key, by double clicking on the note's caption bar with the right mouse button, or by setting the scroll bar checkbox on the note's configuration dialog.

The standard Windows cut, copy, and paste operations using the Windows clipboard work with your note text, so you can clip text from a note and paste it into another program, or vice versa.

See also

Configuring Notes

Cut, Copy, and Paste Operations

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts

Set Note Options

Scroll Bars


Evaluation vs Enhanced Version
Evaluation vs. Enhanced Version

The only difference between the evaluation/unregistered and enhanced/registered version of Stickies! Lite involves the registration reminder.  This is a note that will appear when you run Stickies! Lite, beginning 10 days after you install it.

All other aspects of Stickies! Lite, including all specifications, are the same for both versions.

See also

Lite vs Pro

Registration Information

Technical Support


Notes

Notes are the most important part of Stickies! Lite.  They are small windows that can be moved about on your screen as you wish, and they are where you store your text.

You can use notes as reminders for meetings and special events, as place holders for information you need occasionally (such as phone numbers), or as repositories for any information that you can't find a good place for on your system, but you'd like to be able to locate quickly.

You can configure each note's color and font settings, and you can set alarms on individual notes, and optionally set each note to expire on a given date.

See also

Arrange Notes Menu

Capacities and Limitations

Configuring Notes

Create a Note

Manage Notes Menu

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts


Configuring Notes

The configuration options for Stickies! Lite follow a simple model: You can set options, such as the text and background color and display font, for each note individually, and you can also change the default settings for the same options, which new notes inherit when they are created.  Once a note is created, changes to the default settings will not affect it.

All note configuration options are on the dialog you open by selecting Set Note Options on a note's menu (you can also use the Ctrl-S shortcut key or click on the note with the right mouse button).  Setting options on this dialog will affect only that note.  Selecting Set Note Defaults from the main program menu will allow you to set the default options that are used for all new notes.

See also

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Alarms

To change alarm settings for your notes, you must open a configuration dialog.  To set an individual note's alarm settings, select Set Note Options from that note's menu; to set the default alarm settings that all new notes will inherit, choose Set Note Defaults from the main program's menu.

To set a note's alarm, go to that note's configuration screen, check the box that enables the alarm, and enter the date and time you want the alarm to go off, how many minutes early the alarm should sound, how often it should repeat, and whether it should be a daily alarm or make sound.

If Stickies! Lite is running and the note is active (meaning it is on your desktop, and not stored in an export file on disk) when the alarm time arrives, the note will pop to the top of your active windows, flash its colors, and optionally sound the system's speaker.

You can make an alarm repeat, like the snooze feature on an alarm clock, by entering a time in the "repeat every n minutes" box.  You can also make an alarm sound at the same time every day by selecting the Daily checkbox.

When a note that has no repeating time and is not a daily alarm sounds, the alarm's date and time setting is preserved, but the alarm checkbox is turned off, preventing the alarm from going off again until you re-enable it.

If Stickies! Lite is not running when the alarm time and date arrives, then it will sound the alarm the next time you run the program.

See also

Configuring Notes

Set Note Options


Always on Top Option

You can select this item from a note's Arrange Notes menu to force the note to stay on top of all other windows.  This feature can be a handy way to keep some piece of information available as you work on a document in a full-screen window.

Choosing this option makes the note stay on top, and it places a check mark next to the option in the menu.  Choosing the option again makes the note a normal window and removes the check mark.

All new notes have this option turned off when they are created.

Stickies! Lite will preserve the always on top setting for each note and use it the next time you run the program.

See also

Arrange Notes Menu

Configuring Notes

Menu Types

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Color Settings

To change color settings for your notes, you must open a configuration dialog.  To set an individual note's colors, select Set Note Options from that note's menu; to set the default note colors that all new notes will inherit, choose Set Note Defaults from the main program's menu.

Once the configuration dialog is displayed, you can change the text and background color settings by choosing color swatches in the Text and Background boxes with your mouse.  The sample text box will change to reflect your selections as you make them.

Once you have configured the colors, you can select the OK button to use your selections.  If you select Cancel, your changes will be discarded.

See also

Configuring Notes

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Expiration Date

To change expiration date settings for your notes, you must open a configuration dialog.  To set an individual note's expiration settings, select Set Note Options from that note's menu; to set the default note expiration settings that all new notes will inherit, choose Set Note Defaults from the main program's menu.

Automatic expiration dates help you manage notes that have short life spans, such as reminders for appointments or meetings.  By setting a note's expiration date for the day after the event, you can guarantee that the note will be there for the day of your appointment.  Stickies! Lite will ask you, beginning on the day after a note expires, how you want to handle it.

You set the expiration date on the configuration dialog by checking the Expires checkbox and then typing in the month, day, and 4-digit year.  Stickies! Lite will check to make sure that the date you entered is a valid one, and that it hasn't already passed.

See also

Configuring Notes

Expired Note Processing

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Font Setting

To change the fonts for your notes, you must open a configuration dialog.  To set an individual note's font, select Set Note Options from that note's menu; to set the default note font that all new notes will inherit, choose Set Note Defaults from the main program's menu.

To change a font setting, select the Fonts button on the configuration dialog and then select the font and characteristics from the font selector dialog that appears, and select OK.

When you select a new font and return to the configuration dialog, the sample text box will display your new font in your configured colors.  You can choose any display font on your system, in any size from 1 to 36 points.

See also

Configuring Notes

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Note Title, User and Work Group Names

To change the note's title, or the user and work group names for your notes, you must open a configuration dialog.  To set these values for a single note, select Set Note Options from that note's menu; to set default values for these items that all new notes will inherit, choose Set Note Defaults from the main program's menu.

You can change the note's title, user name, or work group name by simply typing new values into the fields for these values on the configuration dialog.

If you have a blank default note title, Stickies! Lite will prompt you for a note title whenever you create a new note.

You can also have blank settings for your name or your work group's name, but if your name is blank in the default settings, then Stickies! Lite will prompt you for your name and your work group's name every time it is run.

See also

Configuring Notes

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Scroll Bars

You can turn a scroll bar on or off for one note or for all new notes by toggling the scroll bar checkbox on the appropriate configuration dialog.

To set this feature for a single note, select Set Note Options from that note's menu; to set the default value for all new notes, choose Set Note Defaults from the main program's menu.

You can also turn a scroll bar on or off for an individual note by using the Ctrl-L shortcut key, or by double clicking on the note's title with the right mouse button.

See also

Configuring Notes

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Dragging Notes into the Active Set

You can import notes into your active set by dragging and dropping files onto the main Stickies! Lite program icon.

As with importing files via the Import Notes option on the Manage Notes menu, Stickies! Lite will convert text files to individual notes.

Stickies! Lite will convert binary DOS files (such as programs) into notes, translating all null characters (hex 00) into blanks in the process.  This translation process will not change your original file on disk or affect it in any way.

If you attempt to import more notes than will fit in your active set, Stickies! Lite will give you the option of importing just those notes that will fit or abandoning the operation entirely.

See also

Active Set

Importing and Exporting Notes

Manage Notes Menu


Hints and Tips

Stickies! Lite has a number of subtle features that can make it easier and more enjoyable to work with.

Stickies! Lite defines keyboard and mouse shortcuts for several common activities, such as printing and exporting notes.

In addition to using the Create a Note option on the main program menu, you can open a new note by double clicking on the caption bar of any Stickies! Lite note or on the main program icon.

You can turn a scroll bar on or off on a note by double clicking with the right mouse button on the note's caption bar or using the Ctrl-L shortcut key.

If you have a cluttered Windows desktop, you can perform all the major Stickies! Lite functions, such as shutting down the entire program and hiding all notes, from the menu of any note.  This saves you the trouble of digging through other windows or using the Windows Task Manager to get to the main Stickies! Lite program icon.

If you need to assemble notes from several different Stickies! Lite users into a single export file, you can use a feature in the export function that lets you append to an existing file.  To do this, have the first person export his or her notes, then give the export file to the next person on the list, who can append more notes and pass the file along to the next person on the list, etc.

See also

Frequently Asked Questions

Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts

Menu Types


Importing, Exporting, and Mailing Notes
Importing and Exporting Notes

Stickies! Lite has several options for sharing your notes with other users.  See the topics below for details.

Dragging Notes into the Active Set

Export this Note/Export all Notes (exporting from the active set)

Import Notes (importing into the active set)


Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts

When any Stickies! Lite note has the Windows focus (meaning it is the active window and anything you type will go into the note), you can use the following shortcut keys:

F1	Help

F6	Step through the visible, open notes on your desktop

Ctrl-A	Duplicate the note (make Another)

Ctrl-D	Display all hidden notes

Ctrl-E	Export the note

Ctrl-H	Hide the note

Ctrl-L	Turn a scroLl bar on or off for the note

Ctrl-P	Print the note

Ctrl-S	Display the note's configuration screen (Set options)

Ctrl-T	Insert the current Time and date into the note at the cursor

Ctrl-W	Write your active set to STLITE.SAV

Stickies! Lite also provides several mouse shortcuts:

Double click on a note's caption bar with the left mouse button to create a new note.

Double click on a note's caption bar with the right mouse button to turn that note's scroll bar on or off.

Right click on a note to display its options dialog.

You can drag and drop files to import them into Stickies! Lite.  Drop them on the main program icon to create notes in your active set.

See also

Hints and Tips

Scroll Bar

Set Note Options


Printing

To print your Stickies! Lite notes, you should select Print all notes from the main Stickies! Lite program menu or any note's menu, or you can select Print this Note from a note's menu or use the Ctrl-P shortcut key to print a single note.  You'll then be given a choice of the level of detail to use in printing your notes.

When Stickies! Lite prints your notes, it will reformat the text in the body of each note to fit the width of the paper and the font it uses for printing.  Stickies! Lite will still respect the "hard returns" in your notes, i.e. those you entered with the ENTER key, as opposed to the line breaks that Stickies! Lite uses to wrap the text so it fits in your note on-screen.

See also

Print Dialog


Main Program Menu

The main Stickies! Lite menu, which you access by clicking once on the Stickies! Lite icon with your mouse, contains several of the usual Windows menu entries, such as Switch To and Close.  Additionally, Stickies! Lite has a number of unique entries which you can use to work with your notes:

Arrange Notes Menu

Create a Note

Manage Notes Menu

Perform Self-Check

Set Note Defaults

See also

Menu Types


Create a Note

Use this option on the main program menu to create a new, empty note.  The new note will inherit its settings, such as color, font, and title, from the default settings.

You can also create a new note by double clicking with the left mouse button on the caption bar of any note or on the main program icon.

Finally, importing files into your active set will create new notes.

See also

Importing and Exporting Notes

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Set Note Defaults

When you create a new note in Stickies! Lite, it inherits its configuration from the default settings.  You can configure the defaults with the note defaults dialog, which you open by selecting the Set Note Defaults item from the main program menu.

You use this dialog by making your changes and then selecting OK to save the new configuration.  Selecting the Cancel button will close the dialog and discard your changes.

Options

Alarm

Colors

Expiration Date

Fonts

Note Title, User and Group Names

Scroll Bar

See also

Always on Top

Set Note Options


Set Note Options

When you create a new note in Stickies! Lite, it inherits its configuration from the default settings.  You can reconfigure the settings for an individual note with the note configuration dialog, which you open by selecting the Set Note Options item from the note's menu, by clicking on the note with the right mouse button, or by using the Ctrl-S shortcut key.

You use this dialog by making your changes and then selecting OK to save the new configuration.  Selecting the Cancel button will close the dialog and discard your changes.

Options

Alarm

Colors

Expiration Date

Fonts

Note Title, User and Group Names

Scroll Bar

See also

Always on Top

Set Note Defaults


Arrange Notes

The Arrange Notes menu is on every note's menu plus the main program's menu.  You use this menu to control the visibility and placement of your active notes.

The options that apply to a specific note are on the note version of the Arrange Notes menu, while the options that apply to all your active notes generally are on both the note and the main program versions of this menu.

Options

Always on Top

Cascade Visible Notes/Cascade all Notes

Display all Notes

Hide this Note/Hide all Notes

Stack Visible Notes/Stack All Notes

See also

Active Set

Manage Notes Menu

Menu Types


Hide this Note/Hide all Notes

The Hide this Note/Hide all Notes entries on the Arrange Notes menu hide one or all of your notes.

Once hidden, notes and their alarms are still active and will be saved when Stickies! Lite or Windows is shut down, even though hidden notes do not show up on the Windows Task Manager list.  Any note that is hidden when Stickies! Lite is shut down will remain hidden the next time Stickies! Lite is run, but will display normally after 10 days.

The About box in Stickies! Lite displays a count of the total number of notes in your active set, plus the number that are hidden.

See also

Arrange Notes Menu

Display all Notes


Display all Notes

The Display All Notes entry on the Arrange Notes menu makes all hidden notes visible again.  You can also use the Ctrl-D shortcut key to do the same from any note.

See also

Arrange Notes Menu

Hide this Note/Hide all Notes


Stack Visible Notes/Stack all Notes

The Stack Visible Notes entry on the Arrange Notes menu moves your notes to the upper-left corner of your screen.  This entry does not affect hidden or minimized notes.

The Stack All option forces all hidden notes to be visible and restores minimized notes, then includes them in the stack operation.

See also

Arrange Notes Menu

Cascade Visible Notes/Cascade all Notes


Cascade Visible Notes/Cascade all Notes

The Cascade Visible Notes entry on Arrange Notes menu arranges your notes in three evenly spaced columns on your screen, offset vertically so that you can read the caption bar of each note.  Hidden and minimized notes are not moved by this option.

The Cascade All option forces all hidden notes to be visible and restores minimized notes, then includes them in the cascade operation.

See also

Arrange Notes Menu

Stack Visible Notes/Stack All Notes


Manage Notes

The Manage Notes menu is on every note's menu plus the main program's menu.  You use this menu to perform input and output operations on the notes in your active set.

The options that apply to a specific note are on the note version of the Manage Notes menu, while the options that apply to all your active notes generally are on both versions of this menu.

Options

Duplicate this Note

Export this Note/Export all Notes

Import Notes

Print this Note/Print all Notes

Save Notes

See also

Arrange Notes Menu

Menu Types


Export this Note/Export all Notes

The Export this Note/Export all Notes entries on the Manage Notes menu copy one or all of your active notes to a Stickies! Lite export file.  Exporting notes saves their configuration settings as well as their data, so that they can later be imported exactly as you last used them.  The original notes remain in your active set after the export operation.

You can exchange export files with someone who uses Stickies! Pro, as long as that person's program is the same version number ( e.g. 2.5) as yours.

See also

Active Set

Exchanging Lite and Pro Files

Importing and Exporting Notes

Manage Notes Menu


Import Notes

The Import Notes entry on the Manage Notes menu allows you to import either DOS files or Stickies! export files into your active set.  DOS files (including binary files) are converted into individual notes.  The notes stored in the export files are reactivated using their original options, including color, font, size, and position on your screen.

See also

Dragging Notes into the Active Set

Exchanging Lite and Pro Files

Importing and Exporting Notes

Manage Notes Menu


Save Notes

The Save Notes entry on the Manage Notes menu saves your active notes to STLITE.SAV.  Normally you don't have to worry about saving notes with this option, since Stickies! will automatically save your notes for you when it or Windows is shut down.  Still, there are times when you're about to do something risky with another program or Windows itself, and it's nice to be able to save your notes manually, just to make sure they're safe.

You can also save your active notes with the Ctrl-W shortcut key.

See also

Manage Notes Menu

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts


Duplicate this Note

The Duplicate this Note entry on the Manage Notes menu makes an exact copy of the active note, using all its configured settings and data.  The new note will not inherit its settings from the note defaults, as newly created notes normally do.

You can also duplicate a note with the Ctrl-A shortcut key.

See also

Manage Notes Menu

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts

Set Note Defaults


Print this Note/Print all Notes

The Print this Note/Print all Notes entries on the Manage Notes menu print one note or all your active notes.  See Printing Notes for more details.

You can also print a note with the Ctrl-P shortcut key.

See also

Manage Notes Menu

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts


Perform Self-Check

Stickies! Lite has the ability to verify that its executable file, STLITE.EXE, has not been tampered with or changed.  To make Stickies! Lite do this, select Perform Self-Check from the main program menu, and Stickies! Lite will do the check and report its results.  If you have any problems with Stickies! Lite, please run this self-check before getting in touch with Looking Glass Technologies, to make sure that you're running an unmodified copy.

If Stickies! Lite fails its self-check you should stop using your copy immediately, since there is a chance that someone, somewhere between Looking Glass Technologies and you has made an unauthorized modification to the program.  This does not mean that your system has been infected with a virus, although we advise you to check your system's integrity with a virus scanner program as soon as you can, just to be safe.

The most likely causes of STLITE.EXE failing this test are: 1) a transmission error changed the program as it was being uploaded to or downloaded from a BBS, 2) you got a copy of Stickies! Lite that someone intentionally modified.  In either case, you should stop using that copy, since there's no way to ensure that it is still reliable.

Please let us know if your copy of Stickies! Lite fails its self test.  We'd like to know where you got your tainted copy so we can investigate and make sure none of our customers' systems are being put at risk.

See also

Technical Support


Note Menu

Since each Stickies! Lite note is a Windows window, it has its own menu, which you open by clicking with the mouse on the system box in the note's upper-left corner or by hitting Alt-space when that note is active.

Each note's menu contains several of the usual Windows menu entries, such as Switch To and Close.  Additionally, each note has a number of unique entries.

Options

Arrange Notes Menu

Cut, Copy, and Paste Operations

Exit Stickies!

Manage Notes Menu

Set Note Options

See also

Main Program Menu

Menu Types


Exit Stickies!

Selecting this option on a note's menu will save the notes in your active set and shut down Stickies! Lite.  Choosing this option is identical to using the Close option on the main program's menu.

See also

Active Set

Note Menu


Cut, Copy, and Paste Operations

You can use the standard Windows cut, copy, and paste operations to move text between Stickies! Lite notes and other Windows programs via the Windows clipboard.

Stickies! Lite also supports the "new" Windows keystrokes:

Operation	Keystrokes

Cut	Shift-Del or Ctrl-X

Copy	Ctrl-Insert or Ctrl-C

Paste	Shift-Insert or Ctrl-V

See also

Editing Notes

Note Menu


Registration Information

A single-user license for Stickies! Lite costs $14.95U.S., payable by check or money order in U.S. dollars and drawn on a U.S. bank.  See the order form for details on shipping costs, volume discounts, state sales tax, and site licenses.

A single-user license for Stickies! Pro is $30U.S., with the same payment arrangements mentioned above.  See the Lite vs Pro topic for details on the differences between the two versions.

When you purchase the retail version of Stickies! Lite you will receive:

The current maintenance level of the enhanced version of the program.  The enhanced version removes the registration reminder.

Technical support through GEnie, CompuServe, FAX, or paper mail.

Free disk upgrades to new versions of Stickies! Lite for one year, including all maintenance releases.

See also

Lite vs Pro

Lite Version Order Form

Pro Version Order Form

Upgrade Order Form


Lite vs Pro Versions of Stickies!

The Lite and Pro versions of Stickies! both provide you with a convenient and flexible on-screen version of those "little yellow sticky notes" all computer users know and love.  They both include alarms, hidden notes, automatically expiring notes, import and export features, numerous mouse and keyboard shortcuts, and full configurability of the color and font selections for each note.

In addition to the above, the Pro version has the following features and enhancements:

More on-screen notes at once.  The Lite version can have up to 12 notes on your screen at a time, while the Pro version allows up to 30 notes at a time.

Links.  Each note in the Pro version can have up to 10 program launch buttons.  Using launch buttons and other related features, such as autoexec notes and alarms, you can automate tasks and make it nearly impossible to forget some items on your to-do list.

Bundles.  Since Stickies! Lite doesn't support links, it won't import or create bundles.  (A bundle is a special form of Stickies! export file that contains one note plus the documents referenced in that note's links.  Bundles were added to give Stickies! users an easy way to package and transfer an entire project in one disk file.)

File cabinet.  In addition to the import and export features of the Lite version, the Pro version has a 1,000,000-note file cabinet organized as up to 20 cabinets with up to 50 folders of 1,000 notes each.

Global Options.  The Pro version has several features and options that are not in the Lite version (or exist only as default settings that you cannot change).  These include the Windows resource alarm, the global new-note hotkey, the length of time before hidden notes are made visible.

Printed Manual.  Stickies! Pro 2.5 includes a printed, bound copy of the user manual that has a table of contents and an index.

If you've already purchased a license for the Lite version, you can upgrade to the Pro version anytime within the first year after your initial purchase.

See also

Exchanging Lite and Pro Files

Lite Version Order Form

Pro Version Order Form

Upgrade Order Form


Exchanging Lite and Pro Files

Because Stickies! Lite 2.5 and Stickies! Pro 2.5 use the same file formats, you can exchange export files between the two levels of Stickies! without having to worry about data conversion.

You cannot import a Stickies! Pro bundle file into Stickies! Lite, since bundles rely on links, and links are in only the Pro level.

If you import notes into Stickies! Lite that contain links, the notes and all their text and configuration information will be used as expected, but the links will not appear on the notes.

Please note that as new versions of Stickies! Lite and Stickies! Pro are developed, the latest version of each program might not be able to read the files created by an older version of the other program.  The Lite and Pro levels of Stickies! that have the same version number will always be able to exchange files.

See also

Lite vs Pro


Technical Support

Technical support is available to registered users of Stickies! Lite by writing to:

Looking Glass Technologies

P. O. Box 8636

Endwell, NY  13762-8636

or by sending e-mail to L.G.TECH on GEnie or 71055,1240 on CompuServe, or by sending a FAX to (607)754-1267.

If you are having a problem with Stickies! Lite, please run the self-check feature before getting in touch with us.  When you do write us, please describe the problem as completely as you can.  Describe your configuration, both hardware and software, including the versions of DOS and Windows you're running, plus the version and time and date stamp on your copy of STLITE.EXE.  If applicable, try to find the simplest possible way of recreating the problem.

If you need to send us your notes to demonstrate the problem, please don't send us any sensitive data.  We respect our customers' confidentiality, but we'd rather not see things we shouldn't.

See also

Perform Self-Check


Print Detail

When you print notes, whether from the active set or your file cabinet, Stickies! Lite will give you a choice of the level of detail you would like to print for each note.  Your options are:

Contents Only provides the least detail, and prints just the "body" of each note, i.e. the part you typed in.

Title and Contents prints each note's title as it appears in the note's caption bar, plus its contents.

All provides the most information, and prints the note's title and contents, as well as the user and work group name fields, and the alarm and expiration date settings.

See also

Active Set

Print Dialog

Printing


Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments

Thanks go, in cowardly alphabetical order, to Steve Johnson, Phil Jurgenson, Barbara Kehl (a.k.a. Special Agent Beta Zero), Mark Kehl (a.k.a. Son of Special Agent Beta Zero), Charles Petzold, Jeffrey Richter, John Stith, Maria Vallone, and the hundreds of people who have sent us suggestions and comments.  Without the assistance of these people, some of whom helped us from afar via their published writings, Stickies! Lite would not exist in its current form.

And of course, special thanks go to Liz, without whom nothing would be possible.

Lou Grinzo, President

Looking Glass Technologies

See also

Our Company Philosophy


Frequently Asked Questions

Q: I created a note the last time I ran Stickies! Lite, and now it's gone.  Where did it go?

A: There are several possible explanations.

Stickies! Lite remembers the hidden status of each note from one session to the next.  It is possible that you hid the missing note before shutting down Windows or Stickies! Lite, and that note still exists but is hidden.  You can force all notes to be visible by selecting the Display all Notes option from the Arrange Notes menu.  You can also check the About box to see how many notes are in your active set, and how many of those are hidden.

Another possibility is that the note is active but behind another note.  Using the mouse to drag notes by their caption bars, you can manually move notes around to find the missing one, or you can use the Windows Task Manager to switch to the note (double click on any empty spot on the desktop or hit Ctrl-Esc to bring up the Task Manager), or use the Cascade Notes option to rearrange your active notes, or you can hold down the Alt key and repeatedly hit the Tab key to cycle through your active windows until you find the note, or finally, you can activate any note and then use the F6 key to cycle between all the active notes.  Any of these methods will bring the shy note bubbling to the surface.

Finally, there is always the chance that in your previous Windows session Windows crashed before you or Stickies! Lite had a chance to save your new notes to disk.  If that happened, there's nothing you can do to retrieve the note.

Q: When I ran Stickies! Lite, it used a different display font for a note than the one I told it to use the last time I ran the program.  What happened?

A: Stickies! Lite remembers all the font information for each note and uses that to set up the note in the next session.  Normally, this means that you will get exactly the same font in each note from one Stickies! Lite session to the next.  The only time you won't is if your system configuration changes, and the font Stickies! Lite requests for a note is no longer available.  In that case, Stickies! Lite will use the font that Windows supplies as the closest available match.

Q: When I try to run Stickies! Lite, Windows complains about not being able to find something called COMMDLG.DLL (or SHELL.DLL).  What's going on?

A: Stickies! Lite is a Windows 3.1 program.  COMMDLG.DLL and SHELL.DLL are part of Windows 3.1.  If they aren't present on your system, then Windows will complain that Stickies! Lite is trying to access these unknown files.

Q: Why are all the limits and sizes in Stickies! Lite multiples of 5 or 10, instead of typical computer program numbers like 32 or 255 or 4096?

A: Mostly for philosophical reasons.  We're sick of programs that make people count in powers of two, and we thought it would be nice if Stickies! Lite worked in numbers that were round to people instead of to a computer.

See also

Basic Concepts

Hints and Tips

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts


Stickies! Lite Order Form

The Stickies! Lite order form is provided in the file ORDER.TXT, and is also reproduced below.  To print a copy of the form directly from the Windows help facility, use the Print Topic item on the File menu of Windows Help.

Looking Glass Technologies

PO Box 8636

Endwell, NY  13762-8636

Please note: If we receive your order less than two weeks before we begin shipping a new version of the product, we will hold your order and send you only the new release and extend your registration period accordingly.

Name:	_________________________________________________________

Address:	_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

Phone: 	_______________________ (optional)

Disk size:	[   ] 3.5" 1.4M     [   ] 5.25" 1.2M

E-mail address(es):	___________________________________________________

Where did you get your copy of Stickies!?     _____________________________

The fee for a single-user license is $14.95U.S., payable by check or money order in U.S. dollars and drawn on a U.S. bank.  (Residents of Canada can pay with a Canadian Post Office money order payable in U.S. dollars.)

Residents of New York State must add 8% sales tax, and customers outside North America must add $2U.S. per copy shipped.

Volume pricing schedule:

1 to 5 licenses	$14.95U.S. per license

6 to 10	$12.95U.S.

11 to 20	$11.95U.S.

21 to 60	$10.95U.S.

Over 60	$600U.S. total (site license)

To be eligible for a volume discount, all licenses must be purchased at the same time, and all copies must be shipped to the same address.

This offer is guaranteed until August 31, 1994.

Site licensees will receive 20 copies of the distribution disks and are expected to make their own copies for on-site distribution.  A site license counts as 20 copies when calculating shipping costs for orders sent outside North America.

See also

Registration Information

Our Company Philosophy

Technical Support

Upgrade Order Form


Stickies! Pro Order Form

This is the order form for Stickies! Pro, not the Lite version.  To print a copy of this form directly from the Windows help facility, use the Print Topic item on the File menu of Windows Help.

Looking Glass Technologies

PO Box 8636

Endwell, NY  13762-8636

Please note: If we receive your order less than two weeks before we begin shipping a new version of the product, we will hold your order and send you only the new release and extend your registration period accordingly.

Name:	_________________________________________________________

Address:	_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

Phone: 	_______________________ (optional)

Disk size:	[   ] 3.5" 1.4M     [   ] 5.25" 1.2M

E-mail address(es):	___________________________________________________

[  ]  Yes!  Please send me a free certificate good for a 50% discount on a shareware CD-ROM disc from JCS Marketing that contains hundreds of DOS and Windows programs.  (This offer available to registered customers only.  Certificate expires on June 30, 1995.)

Where did you get your copy of Stickies!?     _____________________________

The fee for a single-user license is $30U.S., payable by check or money order in U.S. dollars and drawn on a U.S. bank.  (Residents of Canada can pay with a Canadian Post Office money order payable in U.S. dollars.)

Residents of New York State must add 8% sales tax, and customers outside North America must add $5U.S. per copy shipped.

Volume pricing schedule:

1 to 5 licenses	$30U.S. per license

6 to 10	$27U.S.

11 to 20	$24U.S.

21 to 60	$21U.S.

Over 60	$1,200U.S. total (site license)

To be eligible for a volume discount, all licenses must be purchased at the same time, and all copies must be shipped to the same address.

This offer is guaranteed until December 31, 1994.

Site licensees will receive 20 copies of the distribution disks and manuals, and are expected to make their own copies for on-site distribution.  A site license counts as 20 copies when calculating shipping costs for international orders.

See also

Registration Information

Our Company Philosophy

Technical Support

Upgrade Order Form


Stickies! Lite-to-Pro Upgrade Form

Use this form only for upgrades from the registered version of Stickies! Lite to the Pro version.   To print a copy of this form directly from the Windows help facility, use the Print Topic item on the File menu of Windows Help.

Looking Glass Technologies

PO Box 8636

Endwell, NY  13762-8636

Please note: If we receive your order less than two weeks before we begin shipping a new version of the product, we will hold your order and send you only the new release and extend your registration period accordingly.

Name:	_________________________________________________________

Address:	_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

Phone: 	_______________________ (optional)

Disk size:	[   ] 3.5" 1.4M     [   ] 5.25" 1.2M

E-mail address(es):	_________________________________________________

The fee to upgrade Stickies! Lite to Stickies! Pro is $15.00U.S. per original single-user license, payable by check or money order in U.S. dollars and drawn on a U.S. bank.  (Residents of Canada can pay with a Canadian Post Office money order payable in U.S. dollars.)

Residents of New York State must add 8% sales tax, and customers outside North America must add $5U.S. per copy ordered for shipping and handling.

This offer is guaranteed for one year from the date your Stickies! Lite registration was received by Looking Glass Technologies.

Your name, as provided above, must appear in our registration database as a licensee of Stickies! Lite.  If it does not, your upgrade order will not be accepted without proof of your original purchase, such as photocopies of both sides of your canceled check.  You can verify your registration status by contacting us at the address above, or by sending us e-mail at 71055,1240 on CompuServe, or L.G.TECH on GEnie.

See also

Lite Version Order Form

Pro Version Order Form


Menu Types

Throughout the Stickies! Lite on-line help and manual you'll see references to the "main program menu" and a "note menu."  These are different menus, with slightly different purposes.

The main program menu is opened by clicking once on the main Stickies! Lite icon with your mouse.  This menu typically contains items which pertain to Stickies! Lite as a whole, such as an item that makes Stickies! Lite perform its self-check, or one that allows you to view and change the default options used for all new notes.

The note menu is opened by clicking once on the "system box," which is in the upper-left corner of a note.  This menu generally has note-specific options, such as one that you use to view and change the font, color, and alarm options that apply to that individual note.

See also

Basic Concepts

Configuring Notes

Main Program Menu

Note Menu

Perform Self-Check

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Unable to Allocate Memory

Stickies! Lite dynamically requests memory from Windows at various times.  If it can't get the required memory, then it will display this message and shut down.

This out of memory situation shouldn't happen, since Stickies! Lite doesn't place a large memory requirement on a Windows system.  If you see this condition, try to run Stickies! Lite again after shutting down some other programs or moving some of your notes into an export file.

If this condition persists, please get in touch with Looking Glass Technologies.

See also

Technical Support


Only One Copy of Stickies! Lite at a Time

Because of the way Stickies! Lite displays notes on your screen and uses one set of files to save your notes, you could get yourself and Stickies! Lite very confused if you were allowed to run more than one copy at once.  In fact, you'd probably wind up losing some data, crashing your system, and wondering why in the world Stickies! Lite didn't stop you from doing this in the first place.  So it does.


Unusable SAV File

Stickies! Lite tried to use its SAV file, which is where it saves your active notes when you shut down Stickies! Lite or Windows.  Stickies! Lite found a file with the expected name in the directory that contains your copy of STLITE.EXE, but the file does not appear to be a SAV file.

To preserve this unrecognizable SAV file, Stickies! Lite has renamed it and created a new SAV file in the proper format.

If you think that Stickies! Lite should have used your SAV file, please get in touch with Looking Glass Technologies and send us a copy of the file.

See also

Technical Support


Not Enough Room to Load Your SAV File

When Stickies! Lite shuts down, it stores the notes in your active set in a file called STLITE.SAV.  Your notes and all their associated configuration information are loaded from this file when Stickies! Lite is started again.  If Stickies! Lite finds that there are more notes in the SAV file than will fit in your active set, it will save the extra notes in an export file and tell you the name of the file.  This will prevent you from losing the notes by shutting down Stickies! Lite and overwriting your old copy of STLITE.SAV.  To retrieve the notes saved in the export file, you can import them into your active set (once you remove other notes to make room for them).

See also

Capacities and Limitations

Importing and Exporting Notes

Technical Support


Can't Start Timer

In order to operate properly, Stickies! Lite uses the timer facility of Windows.  If Stickies! Lite cannot get a timer from Windows, then note alarms will be disabled.  All other Stickies! Lite features will work as expected.

Not being able to get a timer from Windows is a very rare situation, and it can usually be traced to having a large number of programs running at once or running a program that incorrectly allocated timers.  You should try to fix this situation by shutting down some other programs or shutting down and restarting Windows itself.

See also

Alarms

Technical Support


No Active Notes to Export

Stickies! Lite can export all the notes from your active set, including hidden and minimized notes, into a single export file.  If you have no active notes when you ask Stickies! Lite to perform an export operation, then it will display this dialog.

See also

Active Set

Importing and Exporting Notes


Imported Files Won't Fit in Active Set

When you try to import files into your active set of notes, Stickies! Lite checks to make sure they will all fit.  If they won't, then you'll be asked if you want to continue and import only those notes that will fit in your active set, or abandon the operation without importing any notes.

See also

Active Set

Capacities and Limitations

Importing and Exporting Notes


Printer Initialization Failed

Stickies! Lite displays this dialog when it attempts to print and Windows tells it that the printer was not initialized properly.  This condition indicates that there is something wrong with your Windows installation, probably an incorrect printer driver.

If this condition persists, you should get in touch with Looking Glass Technologies.

See also

Technical Support


Append or Replace an Export File

When you tell Stickies! Lite that you want to export one or more notes to an export file, and an export file of that name already exists on your system, Stickies! Lite will give you the option of replacing the file or appending the new notes to it.

If you decide to replace the export file, the original copy of the file will be overwritten.

See also

Importing and Exporting Notes


Delete this Note?

When you try to delete a note that contains text, Stickies! Lite asks you to confirm your request, and gives you a chance to abandon the operation and leave the note as it was.


Expiration Date is Invalid

The expiration date you entered is invalid.  The month and day fields of your date can have one or two digits, but the year must have 4 digits (e.g. you cannot enter "94" for 1994).

Stickies! Lite will reject any date that contains non-numeric characters, or a date that can't exist, such as January 33rd or February 29th in a non-leap year.

See also

Configuring Notes


Expiration Date has Passed

The expiration date you've entered has already passed.  If you tell Stickies! Lite to use it anyway, then you'll be prompted for how you want the expired note handled the next time you run Stickies! Lite.

See also

Configuring Notes


Alarm Date is Invalid

The alarm date you entered is invalid.  The month and day fields of your date can have one or two digits, but the year must have 4 digits (e.g. you cannot enter "94" for 1994).

Stickies! Lite will reject any date that contains non-numeric characters, or a date that can't exist, such as January 33rd or February 29th in a non-leap year.

The time is in 12-hour format, and you use the AM/PM button to specify morning or evening.  Remember that 12:00AM on June 1st is the midnight that falls between May 31st and June 1st (not the one between June 1st and June 2nd), and that 12:00PM is noon.

See also

Configuring Notes


Alarm Prefix is Invalid

The alarm prefix specifies how many minutes before the alarm time you want the alarm to sound.  The value you enter must be a positive, whole number.

See also

Configuring Notes


Alarm Date has Passed

The alarm date you entered has already passed.  If you use this date setting, the alarm will go off within a minute of your closing the configuration dialog.

See also

Configuring Notes


Alarm Repeat Time is Invalid

The alarm repeat time specifies how often you want the alarm to go off once it sounds for the first time.  The number you enter must be a positive, whole number.

See also

Configuring Notes


Export File Exists, OK to Overwrite?

The path and name you've selected for an export file already exists, and the file is not an export file.  Stickies! Lite will therefore ask you for permission before it overwrites the file.

If you reply Yes to this prompt, the file will be replaced by the export file you're about to create, and Stickies! Lite will not make a backup of your original file.

Replying No will abandon the export operation.

See also

Importing and Exporting Notes


Import File is Incompatible Version

Stickies! Lite displays this dialog when you try to import a file that appears to be in Stickies! import/export format, but is not a version that Stickies! Lite can handle.  Since the most likely explanation for this is that your file really is a Stickies! export file, but it was corrupted since it was created, Stickies! Lite will not attempt to load this file.

It is also possible that the file is a bundle (usually with a file extension of STB) that was created with Stickies! Pro.  Stickies! Lite cannot process bundles.

If you are importing more than one file in the same operation, Stickies! Lite will give you the option of continuing to import the other files and skipping this one.

See also

Importing and Exporting Notes


Active Set is Full

Stickies! Lite displays this dialog when you attempt to create a new note and you already have the maximum number of active notes.  If you think you don't have that many notes, remember that hidden and minimized notes count toward your total, so it's possible to have a clean desktop that has a full set of Stickies! notes.

The caption on the main Stickies! Lite icon will tell you how many notes are in your active set.

To see how may notes are in your active set and how many of those are hidden, you can open the About box (select About on the main Stickies! Lite program menu).

See also

Active Set

Capacities and Limitations


There are No Active Notes

You've asked Stickies! Lite to perform some operation that requires at least one active note, and there are none.

See also

Active Set

Capacities and Limitations


Import File is Too Big

The file you've asked Stickies! Lite to import exceeds the size limit for a single note.

If you are importing more than one file, Stickies! Lite will give you the option of continuing to import the other files.

See also

Capacities and Limitations


Can't Import that Many Files at Once

You've tried to import more files than Windows and Stickies! Lite can handle in a single operation.  You should try the operation again, but this time try to import the files in several small groups instead of a single import operation.

See also

Capacities and Limitations

Importing and Exporting Notes


This Note is Full

You've tried to add text to a note that would exceed the size limit for a single note.

See also

Capacities and Limitations


Title Prompt

This dialog appears when you create a new note and it is about to inherit a blank title from the default note settings.  You don't have to enter a title at this prompt; if you leave the field blank, Stickies! Lite will simply create a note with a blank title.

If you select the Cancel button, Stickies! Lite will not create the new note.

If you like to have a different title on every note, then you should go to the default note options dialog and blank out the default note title.  If you don't care if many or all of your notes have the same title, you can set your default title as just mentioned, and then change the title of new notes as you wish via the note option dialog.

See also

Configuring Notes

Set Note Defaults

Set Note Options


Name and Group Prompt

This dialog appears when Stickies! Lite detects that the user name in your configuration is blank or has the original value of "???".  While it can be helpful for you to enter appropriate values for these fields, it's not necessary, and you can leave them blank (although Stickies! Lite will continue to prompt you for these fields every time you run it).

Normally, you would enter your name in the user field, and your company or department name in the group field.  If you frequently share your notes with other users, you can add your phone extension to your work group name, e.g. "Mary Smith, ext. 1234".

See also

Set Note Defaults


Print Dialog

This dialog appears when you tell Stickies! Lite that you want to print one or more notes.  You can use this dialog to select the level of detail you want printed for each note, and which printer to use if you have more than one on your system.

To change the level of print detail, select a different button in the Level of Detail box.

To change to a printer other than the one shown at the top of the print dialog, or to change the way you want to use that printer (e.g. you want to print in landscape mode instead of portrait), select the Setup button, and Stickies! Lite will display the standard Windows printer setup dialog.

If you choose Cancel on the print dialog, Stickies! Lite will abandon the print operation and close the dialog, while choosing the Print button will begin the printing operation with the level of detail and printer displayed on the print dialog.

See also

Print Detail


Stickies! Lite Requires a Fixed Disk Drive

Because Stickies! Lite stores its data files in the directory that holds its main program (STLITE.EXE), you can't run it from a remote or removable disk drive.

In the case of a remote drive, there could be more than one user running that copy, which would cause you and other users to attempt to save your notes to the same files.

Running Stickies! Lite from a removable drive means you risk not having Stickies! Lite available at Windows startup (the usual way of running the program), or running out of room for data files.


Expired Note Processing

While restoring your notes at startup, Stickies! Lite has detected that one of your notes has the automatic expiration date feature enabled, and that note's expiration date has passed.  You have the following options for handling this note:

Activate: Stickies! Lite will leave the note's automatic expiration setting and date unchanged and add the note to your active set.  Until you reconfigure these options or delete the note, Stickies! Lite will ask you how you want to handle this note every time you run it.

Activate and Disable: Stickies! Lite will add the note to your active set, and will turn off the note's automatic expiration date feature but leave the expiration date unchanged.

Delete: Stickies! Lite will delete the note without asking you for further confirmation.

See also

Active Set

Expiration Date


Our Company Philosophy

"Your company what?" we can imagine some of you thinking.  Don't worry, we'll leave discussions of Plato, Descartes, Kierkegaard, and all those other party animals for another time and place.  But we would like to take a minute to tell you about how we approach the software business, since we feel that's an important part of your evaluation of Stickies! Lite.

At Looking Glass Technologies, we believe that in addition to the legal aspects of the company/customer relationship, there is an additional, implicit contract.  While this moral contract is certainly not legally binding, we feel that it is just as important as any written contract, and we will always do our best to uphold it.

We believe that a software company has several obligations, almost all of which translate to one degree or another into respect for the user's time and system resources.  These obligations have implications, some subtle, some not, for how a software company's products should behave.  As we see it, a software company should:

Provide stable, well tested programs that will never refuse to work in any but a graceful fashion.  This means that our programs will check configuration data whenever necessary, instead of simply assuming, for example, that the user is running a particular version of Windows.  If a program absolutely requires a certain file or type of hardware, and that resource is not present, then the program obviously can't run, but it will shut down gracefully after telling you why it can't run.  When a program cannot locate some system resources but can still continue to run in a useful fashion, then it will, after telling you which functions are unavailable.

Make removing the program from your system as painless as possible.  There are few things more frustrating than a Windows program that installs easily but burrows so deeply into your installation that you can't figure out how to get rid of it.  (Look in your WIN.INI file when you get a chance.  You're likely to find all sorts of unidentifiable artifacts in there from programs you removed months ago.)  Removing Stickies! Lite is simply a matter of deleting the distribution files, since it never modifies any of your configuration files, including WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and CONFIG.SYS.

Only install the needed files for a product.  One of our pet peeves is software that installs dozens of irrelevant files.  We've seen programs that install unneeded printer and screen drivers, for example, even after asking which printer and video board the user has.  We consider such behavior the worst form of programmer arrogance and sloth, and we will never ship a product that takes such shortcuts at the expense of the user's system resources.

Make removing individual options of a program easy, wherever possible.  Users running the enhanced version of Stickies! Pro can turn off the quote of the day, today in history, and tip of the day features and delete the associated databases, if they so choose, and the main function of Stickies! Pro will not be affected.  Users of other products do this sort of thing all the time, but usually it's a tentative process that involves guessing a file's real purpose based on its name, and then experimenting by moving the unwanted files to another directory while the user ensures that the program won't crash without them.  Forcing users to waste time on such tricks is unforgivable.  We will always tell you the function of each file associated with our programs, which ones are absolutely necessary, and what function is sacrificed by deleting each optional file.  We can't stress this point strongly enough: It's your system, and you should be given the necessary information to maintain control of it.

Last, and most important of all, provide good support to our users.  This is not limited to fixing bugs or answering your mail (but there are some companies we all could name that don't seem the least bit interested in doing even that much, sad to say).  When we release a maintenance version of a product, we admit that's what it is and we tell you about the specific fixes and the consequences of hitting the bug, instead of trying to "slipstream" fixes into place and hoping no one will notice.

See also

Acknowledgments

Registration Information

Technical Support