If the gadget is installed as a download from SharPra.com or the Windows Live Gallery,
it will directly install in the Vista Sidebar, however if the user deletes and then
wishes to reinstall the gadget, the user can find the gadget listed in the List
of Sidebar Gadgets.
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When the gadget is first installed the user is presented with the following one-time
Welcome Message
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The Main Notes Window where the user can write notes is shown below
On moving the mouse out of the notes gadget the Login/Register links, the note position
and all the add, delete, previous, next buttons are hidden as shown below
On undocking (moving the gadget outside the Sidebar), the Notes Gadget becomes bigger
in size as shown below
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The buttons at the bottom allow the user to do the following:-
ADD – Add a new note. (Maximum of ten).
DELETE – Delete the current Note (Not allowed when the user has a single note).
PREVIOUS – Moves to the previous Note. (Not Allowed when the user is at the first
note).
NEXT – Moves to the next Note. (Not Allowed when the user is at the last note).
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On initially installing the gadget it works in the offline mode i.e. Notes written
will be saved only on your local computer. To Permanently save notes. The user need
to Register/Login, which enables the Notes to be saved permanantly
on the Notes Server. Clicking the register link brings out the Register Window as
shown below.
The user then fills the required fields
On clicking the ‘Click User’ button, the Notes Gadget shows up with the ‘Logged
In’ message with a green button.
At this point any Notes written in the gadget will be permanently saved, even if
you delete the gadget and re-install it, or Log Off and Login back again your notes will be saved. Moreover the notes
written after logging in can be accessed (provided the correct login) by all other
Sticky Notes Online clients, on other computers and web browsers
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If the user clicks the green button when logged in, a window will appear asking
the user if she/he wants to log off as show below
On clicking ‘Continue Offline’ the Notes Gadget reverts to start saving Notes locally,
these changes cannot be accessed by other clients.
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If the user has already registered and either decides to log off and re-login or
installs the Sticky Notes Online Gadget on a different computer. The user can login
to retrieve all her/his Notes by clicking the login link.
If the user has entered notes while working offline (not logged in), on clicking
the login button, the Notes Gadget verifies that different notes exist on the server
and gives the user the following option.
– If the User clicks Continue Offline, the user will remain offline (not logged
in).
– If the User clicks ‘Update Notes with Server Data’ – The notes written by the
user in offline mode will be replaced by the ones saved on the server.
– If the User clicks ‘Update Notes with Current Data’ – The notes on the server
will be replaced by the notes currently entered by the gadget.
Below we see that the user has selected ‘Update Notes with Current Data’, which
logs the user in and the notes on the server have been replaced by the users current
notes. (Thus all other clients, E.g. the IGoogle client, which display the users
Notes will now see the new Notes.
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Clicking the blue Tools icon as shown below brings up the settings panel.
The Settings enable the user to change the current theme, font style,
font size and whether the scrollbar should be shown or not, if the
‘Show Scrollbar’ checkbox is unchecked, the user can scroll using the mouse wheel.
The Slider Speed setting is used to change the speed at which the gadget
will display the next previous note on clicking the next/previous buttons.
The Check If Server…Sync Settings are explained in
the next section
Below we show an example of the user making changes to the theme and font settings.
On clicking Ok the Notes Gadget will be displayed as below
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When the user is logged in the Windows Vista Sticky Note Online Gadget on a computer,
and is also logged on a different Sticky Note Online Gadget E.g. the IGoogle Sticky
Notes Online Gadget, if the user modifies the notes on the other (IGoogle) gadget
as show below.
Based on the amount of time set in the ‘Check Server Every’ drop down list, The
Vista Notes Gadget will check if updated notes exist on the server, if the gadget
finds more recent notes on the server it shows the following message
On clicking the message the user is presented with the following options:-
– If the User clicks ‘Update Notes with Server Data’ – The current notes in the
Vista Gadget will be replaced by the ones saved on the server.
– If the User clicks ‘Update Notes with Current Data’ – The notes on the server
will be replaced by the notes currently in the gadget.
Below we see that the user has selected ‘Update Notes with Server Data’, which updates
the Vista Notes Gadget by the Notes present on the server (entered using the IGoogle
gadget)
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When the user starts Windows Vista and the Notes gadget starts in the Vista Sidebar,
if the user is logged in, the gadget tries to get the notes from the server, however
if network connectivity is absent or there are issues with the server, the following
message is shown
On clicking the Notes Gadget, the user is presented with the following options.
If the user selects try again, the gadget will try to access the Notes Server again,
on success the users Notes will appear in the gadget, on failure the gadget will
display the same message again.
If the user selects Continue Offline, the user can access the Notes gadget in the
offline mode, However if updates were made to the Notes from other clients while
the current computer was shut down, those updates will not be reflected.
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