desktop shortcuts for opening/closing a group of Pnotes

[Steven Avery]

Great software! Thanks. Newbie here.
Windows 7 Professional SP1. .Net version

I've used some of the other sticky goodies (Stickies and Notezilla especially) and I get the sense that PNotes is the best for my Desktop notes project. The idea is sort of a fullscreen multi-column or tiled to-do list, preferably more than one (using groups). I want a desktop version of what I have tried to do with Listhings online, but with the excellent RTF goodies that Listhings lacks. (The paradigm of a net desktop has other differences, plus and minuses, compared to a native desktop desktop.) Also PNote takes small pics very nicely, not always the case in sticky programs.

This leads to a couple of questions. I have a little space (using Max-Max I section off two rows of icons on the right that do not get hidden by apps open.) for new icons and I want to make a one-click option to show or hide the groups desktop. Perhaps using command-line switches.

Here is the standard way I would do it now:

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1 Hide the current
Right-Click System Tray
Show/Hide
Hide Groups
Hide All (or one specific group)

2 Show a Specific desktop
Right-Click System Tray
Show/Hide
Show Groups
(Specific Group)
Show All (the notes within the group)

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Can you help me accomplish this with a shortcut? (e.g. To a .bat file using command-line.) I acknowledge I have not played with it yet myself, I figger this idea might be useful for many PNote users. If you have some preferred quick-ways, I am all ears. Note that I am not a big fan of keyboard shortcuts, I prefer icon desktop shortcuts.

Thanks!

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Here are two things I noticed.

1
Your superb toolbar for editing is a bit small. Acceptable, though. (I am using a 1920 x1200 screen resolution, I realize it would be bigger with a lower resolution.) Is there any methods to make it bigger? I don't think there is a method to edit from the Control Panel. Which is understandable. You would lose some of the WYSIWIG.

2
When I changed the background color of a note to green from the yellow default, the title bar text lost a lot of its resolution. Any ideas why? I'm pretty sure all the other settings are the same.

Thanks! Appreciate PNotes.

The pic is a section of the desktop. Nothing confidential in the notes. Later I will probably do more with transparency, fonts, etc.

Steven Avery

[Steven Avery]

An additional possibility is an external windows utility to help with PNote task-group switching rather than a cmd-line to bat.file to shortcut-icon method (if the cmd-line works for this.)

Or maybe the Donationcoder people would whip up something with AutoHotKey or AutoIt.

GoScreen is one of the lightest Virtual Desktops. Have used and liked.
Could try that, or Dexpot.

And there are a bunch of those programs which try to group applications, like TaskShare. Would they see each note as a distinct Window Class (see Pin to Window from PNote). And would that be stable after reboot? Hmmm..

btw, look and feel of PNote is really superb. Glad that I found the Pin to Window possibility.

Steven

[oldlamer]

Hi,
There is no way to show/hide notes/groups via command line. The only thing you can do is to assign hot keys to show/hide groups at hot keys management dialog.
If you use a classic version of PNotes, you cannot change the size of note's toolbar buttons. In PNotes.NET you have a opportunity to choose between small and large size.
You may change the font and color of note's title bar at the same dialog where you change the note's back color.
In PNotes classic notes are windows of unique class, but in PNotes.NET they are not.