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Sooyke wrote:You need a tool to change the look of stickies :
zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/skinner.html


Thanks for helping!
I couldn't get the .exe file to run on my Win 10 system.
Any ideas?

SPOOK wrote:Give any of these a try: ....   They all have a Stack that will do about anything you want.

SPOOK wrote:It is a little hard to figure-out how much a person knows about using Stickies.

To use Stack(s) you have to have a Stickie that has a Stack in-bedded in it and you have to make that Stickie your Default Stickie.

To make a Stickie your Default Stickie you have to go into Settings. (Right-Click the Task-Bar Icon then select Settings.)

Select the Folder Icon to the right of the PATH/FILENAME and pick the Folder that has your Stickie that has a Stack in-bedded in it. This sets your default Stickie and will use the Stack in-bedded in it for any new Stacks.

SPOOK wrote:You might want to re-read my last post, I see I was editing it while you where responding.

Your progressing perfectly, Ya, you are right, CLOSE/OPEN/DELETE is messed up but we been using it that way for over 20 years, and believe me, those of us who have used Stickies for 10 or 20 years look-upon the Stickies creator (Tom Revell) as a really special guy.


... NOT means "NOT ON TOP" you would have figured that out pretty quick.

There is a little instant-gratification in the beginning but for the Pure-Bliss that will come a little later, I promise. Hang in there.

Red = Edit


Thanks again Spook for helping!
Yes I guess I will eventually get used to that 'Close' for the stickies.
I did find out earlier that I could revive the accidentally deleted stickies.

Thanks for the NOT meaning too.
Slowly but surely I will learn the in's and out's of this app. 

I still need to set up the Stack and Stickies properly.

Sooyke wrote:You need a tool to change the look of stickies :
skinner.html

The default skin is hard coded so you need the external skinfile to modify and set as default :
stickies9

You will find a tutorial in the skinner.zip file skinner.chm .


I really would like to give this software a shot to see if I can customize a
Stack.

Right now Windows 10 isn't cooperating.
The skinner.exe won't run.

I get this message:

"The app has failed to start because its
side-by-side config is incorrect.
Please see the app. event log or use
command-line sxtrace.exe tool for more detail."

I can't find the log nor the sxtrace tool.

Any ideas what is happening?


More details found:

"Activation context generation failed for "D:\Computer\Software\Stickies\Skinner\skinner.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.MFC,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="9.0.21022.8" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis."

Provider [ Name] SideBySide

- EventID 33 [ Qualifiers] 49409

Version 0

Level 2

Task 0

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2021-11-25T21:47:52.8773885Z

EventRecordID 26330

Correlation

- Execution [ ProcessID] 0 [ ThreadID] 0

Channel Application

Computer DESKTOP-1B4NORD

Security

-

EventData

Microsoft.VC90.MFC,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="9.0.21022.8"

D:\Computer\Software\Stickies\Skinner\skinner.exe

Sooyke wrote:

What do you mean by open/close for a stack ? Do you mean toggle stack / unstack ?

Sooyke wrote:



The only way to learn is to make the demo skin in skinner.chm from a-z without skipping any lines ! It will take 3 hours .
Tom Revell put a lot of work and time in it and updated it to the last skinner version so we are gratefull for it even it is just a tool not the main app .