Unlock hidden features within Stickies

Jun 15, '04 09:46:00AM

Contributed by: roncross@cox.net

Ok, here is something else cool about the stickies application. Go to the finder and navigate to Applications -> Stickies. Control click on Stickies and click Show Package Contents. Another Finder window will open up with a folder name Contents. Navigate to Contents -> Resources -> English.lproj -> StickiesDocument.nib. Double Click on StickiesDocument.nib (you'll need Xcode or the Developer Tools installed).

When you open up StickiesDocument.nib, you will see three items. These items are the Cocoa-Controls Panel, a window named Stickies, and the StickiesDocument.nib Panel. Click on the Window called Stickies and the menubar will change to Interface Builder. Click on Tools -> Show Info. When you click Show Info, a box will pop up labeled "NSTextView Info." Immediately under the label you will see a pop-up box labeled "Attributes."

If you see the label "Attributes" then you are on the right pane. In this pane, you will see a wealth of options for the Stickies. Some of the obvious ones are Text Color, Background Color, Border, and Scrollbar Size. The scrollbar comes in two sizes, small and regular.

There is a second set of options for the stickies that all include a checkbox for each option. These options are as follows:

I hope that people find this valuable since the Stickies application isn't scriptable. Maybe Apple will decide to make these features available in the future without having to go through so much to change the preferences and hidden features.

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