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                 STICKYTHINGS 4.0 
               for Windows 95 and NT

           (c) 1995-97 by Tom Hollander 
              t.hollander@praxa.com.au

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What is Stickythings?
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Stickythings is a program that lets you put "sticky" notes
on your desktop so you can quickly jot down notes, ideas,
phone numbers, whatever. You can give your notes their
own special look, and they will stay there every time
you start up Stickythings.

Installation
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Firstly, run the Setup program to install the required
program files into the correct directories.

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Stickythings,
unfortunately you will not immediately have access to the
notes you used to have (sorry!). Your old notes are, however,
still stored as text files in the Stickythings directory.
You can copy and paste these into new notes if you want.

Using Stickythings
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When you first start Stickythings, you will see a new icon in the
System tray (that's the box on the taskbar near the clock).
This is the control centre for all of Stickythings' functions 
which apply to the whole environment. Click on the note icon
with any button to bring up the Stickythings menu.

In more detail, the commands on the Stickythings menu are:

New Note: create a new note
Raise Open Notes: bring all open notes to the top of the screen.
   (this is good if you have open notes but lose them under other
    windows).
Show / Hide Notes: show or hide any number of your notes
About Stickythings: info about me and the program
Exit Stickythings: Exit the program.

Once you have created anote, enter your text with
the keyboard. You don't have to save the note, it will
stay there until you kill it (even if you quit Stickythings).

To change a note's properties, right-click anywhere on the note.
in the lower-left corner of the note. The Note menu lets you change
many aspects of a note, including its font and colour. You can also
rename a note, print, cut, copy and paste, as well as kill notes. 

If your Windows display setup is less than HighColour
(16-bit) colour, you should only choose pure (undithered)
colours or the notes may look pretty ugly. I recommend
you find out whether your video card supports HighColour
and if so get a driver for it, as it makes lots of programs look 
MUCH nicer!

When you choose Set as default from the Format sub-menu, the current
note's properties will be inherited by all new notes you create.

The Always On Top option is also handy to keep important notes on top
of all other windows. This is a toggle option, so you can easily
"sink" a note which you get tired of.

When you close a note by clicking on the X button on its title bar,
it is not gone for ever. This will simply hide a note. You can get it
back by choosing Show / Hide Notes from the Stickythings menu in the
system tray.
If you really do not want a note any more, choose Kill Note from the
note's menu. Once you kill a note you will never get it back!

If you want StickyThings to come up every time you start
Windows, simply put a shortcut to Stickies.exe into 
\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp.

Shareware Info
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This program is shareware, which means it costs one
tenth as much as normal commercial software, it will
hardly kill you to register it.

To clear your conscience, send $A/$US20 to me at
	Tom Hollander
	12 Gatton Street
	FARRER ACT 2607
	Australia

Contact Me!
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If you have any comments or find any bugs, or if you
need inexpensive custom-developed software, you can
e-mail me at t.hollander@praxa.com.au.
Also, visit my web page at http://www.praxacan.com.au/tom/
for more cheap or free software.

- Tom Hollander
  6 June, 1997