Sticky notes - time for some improvements

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Hugh, I didn't say others weren't allowed to express their opinion. I was just dropping a broad hint in view of my previous experiences of suggesting improvements in this forum. ;)

I am glad sticky notes work well for you in their present form.

There's design and there's good design. Some of us are so resigned to putting up with irritating interfaces at work, designed by mediocre people, that they become oblivious to minor imperfections. Fine. If no one else points out these obvious but admittedly minor flaws, nothing will ever be done about them. I like interfaces that are so intuitive and seamless that they become practically invisible. This doesn't come easily and usually requires plenty of user feedback.

Generally agree, can I also ask whether there is any scope to add sticky's to multiplayer sessions as well?

Cheers

Andrew

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Generally agree, can I also ask whether there is any scope to add sticky's to multiplayer sessions as well?

Cheers

Andrew

Would be useful in multi-player if clients could select private/public (ie visible/not visible to other clients), would be easier than passing a message in a lot of cases.

Might need pubic note creation by a client to be restricted to their logged-on duty area.

1) The sticky note always displays an extra, unnecessary, terminating space which often means I cannot place it where I would like to see it without hiding something important like a signal, i.e., the extra space makes it difficult to fit into tight places.

2) On opening a sticky note, the cursor for some strange reason is positioned below the last line of text on a blank line, i.e., the sticky needlessly ends in a carriage return (CR). This means an extra keystroke is needed when backspacing. (Is this linked to the gratuitous terminating space in (1)?)

3) After clicking Reset, the cursor disappears, so it becomes necessary to click in the text area before one can type anything. Since this is non-standard behaviour, I often find myself typing in some replacement text, then wondering why nothing showed up. Surely the cure should be to write an extra line or two of code to restore focus to the text area.

4) Any changes made in text or background colours during editing apply to all further notes created, instead of being local to that note.

5) Once changes have been made to text or background colours, there is no simple way to reselect the default colours (black text on pale yellow background).

6) It is often more convenient to type everything in upper case; I usually have the Caps Lock set On when playing SimSig as I find legibility is improved. There should be a checkbox for toggling upper case On and the state of this toggle should be preserved from note to note.

7) It should be easier to copy the contents of a sticky note than at present. My solution would be to include a Copy (or Copy Text) button so that clicking it automatically copies the text to the clipboard, without having to first highlight it, then press Ctrl+C.

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Blimey ...

The only "improvement" I see necessary for sticky notes is the increase in length of the editing area (currently five lines of text). I mentioned this in another thread a couple of months ago.

I would say 99% of my stickies are one line.