
 WarpNote - The Sticky Notes Program For OS/2 Warp
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 (c) 1997 Uwe Schlenther Software, Bebelstrasse 30, D-70193 Stuttgart, Germany

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 What's the goal ?
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 I'm one of the guys who use those yellow sticky notes to write down more or
 less important stuff and put them somewhere around my desk. However, I dis-
 covered a few disadvantages of the "hardware solution": The wall behind my
 desk was quickly littered with notes, and stupidly they didn't want to
 stick on my monitor.

 So I started looking for a "software solution". I found only one program
 for OS/2 that did the job, but it had some design flaws and heavy bugs.
 After I didn't hear from the author for a few weeks, I started writing my
 own sticky notes program for OS/2.

 My aim was to create a program with the following characteristics:

 - small, fast and not consuming more memory as necessary
 - easy to use, without any unneccessary buttons, menus, bells or whistles

 What does it do ?
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 The result is WarpNote, a program that uses as little memory as possible and
 at the same time gives you the easiest possible access to sticky notes on the
 OS/2 desktop.

 All you need is a computer running OS/2 Warp, version 3 or 4 or later. The
 program will *not* run under OS/2 2.x, because the EXE file is compressed
 in a way that cand be handled under pre-Warp versions of OS/2. If you need
 an executable for OS/2 2.x, please contact me and I'll happily deliver one.

 WarpNote can handle up to 9999 notes (4 notes in the unregistered version),
 although there is a practical limit in the range between 500 and 1000 notes
 (the OS/2 window list can only handle some 500 entries). The notes are num-
 bered from 1 and a note will always keep the same number thus making it ea-
 sier to remember. Additionally, the first ca. 40 characters of the note text
 are displayed in the titlebar and the window list.

 How to do it
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 There is no menu bar. As any window, WarpNote note windows have a system
 menu and a popup menu (single-click the right mouse button in the yellow
 area). This is the place where all the functions of WarpNote have been put.
 Some of the more frequently used entries have been connected to hotkeys to
 make life even easier.

 Note handling

 You can place the notes anywhere on your desktop and size them as you want.
 Each size and position is saved automatically. To change the font or back-
 ground color, open the settings dialog from any note's system menu, drag
 your preferred font or color from the font or color palette and drop it on
 the appropriate field in the dialog box. (The standard background color has
 an RGB value of Blue:140, Green:255, Red:255.) You can also change font or
 color of each one note by dropping the desired font or color on that single
 note. (Note: In OS/2 versions prior to OS/2 Warp V4, the MLE control can't
 use certain colors.)

 Creating new notes

 New notes can be created in several ways. Usually, new notes are created
 from any other note by pressing the F2 function key or selecting "New Note"
 from the system or popup menu. If all notes are hidden, double click the
 "New Note" entry in the window list or the WarpCenter window list. Another
 way ist to double click the WarpNote program object, if you have your pro-
 gram object set up to "Create another" in the Window-section of its proper-
 ties notebook.

 Deleting notes

 To delete a note, simply close the note window using the close button or
 the Alt+F4 key. You may also select "Close Note" from the popup menu or
 "Close" from the system menu. When the note is not empty, WarpNote will
 ask you for confirmation. Empty notes will automatically be deleted when
 you exit WarpNote.
 
 Hiding notes

 You can hide or show all notes at the same time from the menus. When your
 program object is set up to "Show existing window", you can also double-
 click the program object to show all notes.

 Word wrapping and titlebar

 In some cases, you might desire word wrapping. The menus and F4 will enable
 or disable word wrapping for each note. In the WarpNote settings dialog you
 can adjust if you want new notes to use word wrapping or not.

 If you want to save desktop space, you can hide the titlebar of a note by
 pressing F5. You can also select "Titlebar" from the system or popup menu.
 If the titlebar is hidden, you cannot move the note. To make the titlebar
 reappear, press F5 again or select "Titlebar" from the popup menu. When the
 titlebar is not visible, a "Move Window" entry appears in popup menus of
 such notes and you can use Alt+F7 to move that note as usual. Additionally,
 you can place the mouse pointer on the note window, hold mouse button 2 and
 drag the window around.

 The settings dialog allows you to select whether new notes will use word
 wrapping and if new notes have a titlebar.

 The WarpNote notes list

 Some people don't like all those note entries in the OS/2 tasklist. There
 is a setting in the WarpNote settings dialog to get rid of all those lines
 in the window list. To make it easier to access the notes, you can use the
 WarpNote notes list which can be activated in the settings dialog. You can
 consider the WarpNote notes list as a kind of navigation center: All func-
 tions can be accessed via a popup menu available on each entry in the Warp-
 Note notes list.

 Technical stuff

 To keep it all transparent and safe, the text of each note is saved in a
 file named "NOTE####" where "####" represents the note's number. Those files
 are located in the same directory as the main program. So, if for some rea-
 son a note is gone, you can recover it as a plain text file in the directory
 you used to install WarpNote (e.g. using the UNDELETE command).

 As an alternative, you can set up WarpNote to hold all notes' contents in
 its own INI file. This makes it easier to synchronize WarpNote from one
 computer to another: All you need to take with you is the INI file. Please
 note that this setting will limit you to a maximum contents of 32767
 characters per note!

 It is not possible to start WarpNote more than once from one directory. If
 you try to do so, a new note will be opened in the first instance of the
 program or the existing notes will be made visible - depending on how your
 program object is set up on the Window page.


 WarpNote is the ideal companion that should be placed in the Startup folder.
 This gives you access to a sticky note whenever you need it. WarpNote will
 not delay shutdown in any way, so you won't even notice that WarpNote is
 present.

 How much is it ?
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 Please keep in mind that WarpNote had to be designed, developed and tested
 and that these steps cost me quite some time. The result is a small, fast,
 robust, reliable and easy-to-use program. I offer this program to you at a
 small fee of US$ 14. You may try the demo version for a period of 30 days.
 After that time you must either remove the program from your harddrive or
 register the program by paying the registration fee. Use of the unregistered
 version beyond the trial period of 30 days offends my legal rights.

 Until registration information has been entered, WarpNote is limited to 4
 notes open at a time. The registered version can handle up to 9999 notes.

 Payments can be sent directly to me (address as stated above) in cash. I can
 also accept VISA or Diners Club credit cards. International customers can
 register at the BMT Micro registration site:

                  Mail Orders To: BMT Micro
                                  PO Box 15016
                                  Wilmington, NC 28408
                                  U.S.A.

                    Voice Orders: 8:00am - 7:00pm EST (-5 GMT)
                                  (800) 414-4268 (orders only)
                                  (910) 791-7052

                      Fax Orders: (910) 350-2937  24 hours / 7 Days
                                  (800) 346-1672  24 hours / 7 Days

         Online Orders via modem: (910) 350-8061  10 lines, all 14.4K
                                  (910) 799-0923  Direct 28.8K line

     Ordering and general ordering questions:
                         Via AOL: bmtmicro
                         via MSN: bmtmicro
                     Via Prodigy: HNGP66D
                  via Compuserve: 74031,307
                    via Internet: orders@bmtmicro.com
                                  telnet@bmtmicro.com
                                  http://www.bmtmicro.com

 Upon registration, you will be mailed or preferrably e-mailed a registration
 code that changes the unregistered demo version into a registered version
 without the limitations of the test version. Registration codes will remain
 valid for at least all 1.x versions of WarpNote.

 New versions will appear first on

   http://www.geocities.com/rodeodrive/2048/warpnote.html

 and second at BMT Micro. Have a look at

   http://www.geocities.com/rodeodrive/2048/eindex.html

 for more OS/2 programs.

 If you have any questions, bug reports or whatever, you may contact me at
 the address on top of this document or by e-mail (U.Schlenther@TeamOS2.DE).

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 License Information

 WarpNote is not free software. You may use the evaluation version for a pe-
 riod of 30 days to find out whether it meets your needs. If you want to con-
 tinue using the program after your evaluation, you must acquire a license by
 registering with the author. This requires the payment of a license fee.

 After the license fee has been paid, you will receive a registration key that
 will enable WarpNote as a full licensed version.

 If after the evaluation period you think that WarpNote is not the software
 you need and that you don't want to register the program, you may not con-
 tinue using it. In that case you must deinstall the software from your hard
 disk. Any use of the evaluation version beyond the evaluation period is con-
 sidered software piracy and can be pursued by legal action. However, you may
 still distribute the software after the evaluation, if you adhere to the
 following terms.

 The evaluation version of WarpNote may only be distributed free of charge.
 It is explicitly forbidden to ask for any kind of fee for copying the soft-
 ware. You are encouraged and given the right to distribute the software on
 CD-ROM, as long as there are no other objections. In any case, you may only
 distribute the complete and unchanged package.
 An exception to these terms are shareware vendors that are meber of "DS -
 Deutschsprachige Shareware" or "ASP - Association of Shareware Professio-
 nals". Such vendors may charge a nominal copying fee for WarpNote, as long
 as the package is distributed in complete and unchanged form.

 The following terms apply to both, evaluation version and licensed version:
 The software is protected by international law. It is not allowed to use the
 software or parts of the software for any purpose other than the one it has
 been designed for. You may not disassemble, reverse engineer or change the
 software.

 In no event shall Uwe Schlenther Software be liable for any damage that has
 been caused, directly or indirectly, by the software. There is no warranty
 that the software will be usable on any special computer configuration. It's
 the sole responsibility of the user to verify that the software is appro-
 priate for a certain purpose and that it is error free.

 These terms of license can be changed, extended, restricted or retracted at
 any time and to any extent without prior notice.

 Stuttgart, October 3rd 1997

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 Thanks to Weifu Lin from Taiwan who designed the icon for WarpNote.

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