I have a black desktop and cannot see the text because of the bad white outline. LOVE THE WIDGET but DOES NOT WORK ON BLACK BACKGROUNDS.

make so you can change text color

this widget is great. i love the minimalist borderless design. i keep it floating and opaque so it can constantly remind me of tasks while i can still see through it while surfing the web.

This would be a great widget if I could read the text. It's totally unreadable on my system.

Great widget! The only area of improvement would be...for the 'background opacity' to be saved every time I restart Yahoo Widgets. I have a black desktop,and with its default setting, I can't see the notes I type at all. I fix the problem by setting the background opacity higher, but every time I reset Yahoo Widgets, it goes back to the default opacity...

I understand it's minilistic, but can you make it so you can center please? Thank You!

great great widget, just one tiny suggestion. How about the option for a thin 1 or 2 pixel border that we can change the color of. That would make it really compliment my desktop, im a big fan of thin borders. =D Keep up the great work!

I really like this, and it is working great on my computer at work, but it is doing some very weird things on my laptop.

Something on my computer seems to be incompatable with it, and is causing it to record the words "zsh (I think) command not found" over and over again. The first time I only discovered when I made it speak, and it was still saying it when I walked back into the room after a bath! I shut it down, and then reinstalled it, but the same text keeps appearing. I don't want to rate it based on that, as it works perfectly elsewhere.

Really love the simplicity of this widget, but will likely switch to another note program as it does *not* retain text size settings, returing to default 11pt font each time it's loaded. Windows XP SP2.

Love It (It blends into my background), but could you make it so you can make multiple notes?

I want to love this widget for its dazzling simplicity. But I'm having the same problems others have reported. Worst is disabling use of Ctrl-E in other programs--essential to me in Eudora, where it's the shortcut for closing and queueing outgoing messages. Also, reset defaults don't seem to lock in; when I reboot, the original default background and font have returned. I also have the white shadow problem. Too bad, because Paper is a wonderful idea.

I've found this great so far. If got over some of the minor issues (like changing the font to Verdana, making the default size 11, disabling speech etc) but I can't find a way to change the hotkey for movement from Ctrl-E. I use Photoshop a lot and Ctrl-E is used to merge layers. This widget disables Photoshop's use and gives a line of errors on the paper itself. If this could be fixed in a future release or someone could tell me how to edit the .kon file relating to this, it would be much appreciated.

The posters above commenting that this widget is hard to use or are complaining about interface issues are crazy! This is one of the most elegant and useful little apps I've seen. I'm a graphic designer who also runs his own business, and I jot down a lot of notes all day. PAPER's minimalist approach is it's appeal -- it really is like writing on a piece of paper, only much much better (spell check, copy/paste, etc). And totally customizable in size. Nothing large to load, nothing to get in the way, exactly like you'd want for a quick note. This widget alone is worth having Konfabularor on your machine. My only issue with this terrific widget is that it defaults to text size (a bit small) despite my setting a new default. Everytime I launch the widget, it reverts back to the old default text size, instead of the new one I set. So I have to reset it each time it launches, which is a bit of an annoyance. (Mac OS 10.3.9). Other than that minor issue, this widget is the

i love this widget. it's very helpful and simple. does what it should nicely. thanks!

Nice and simple. However, it seizes control of my CTRL-E key combination, which prevents me from using the widget because CTRL-E is important for a number of applications that I use constantly.

cool! but.. (there's always a but!) it types with black text.. and yet i can paste WHITE text in.. would love ability to swap text color over for darker bg colors..

very cool widget!

whoa that was quick:
for the "execute in terminal" command the hotkey for windows is ctrl-e

and i figured out the speech hotkey: ctrl-spacebar
still trying to find the Run In Terminal command if it's in Win version... it could be very handy.
The white fonts bug: screen preferences-desktop-effects-font smoothing

the last post have hidden some characters

if anyone's interested:
to fix the halo disable the clear-type font smoothing in windows.
(Screen Preferences Desktop Effects Font Smoothing) or something similar.

I have the white halo as well, just like the one in 2 posts below..

here's that poster's image: http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/813/sticky2vp.jpg

It appears that the font has a "white shadow" which is obvious in dark background. Any solutions to it Maurice? (if you could tell what to do in the *.kon file that would be great too)

Thanks! Great widget

I have the white halo as well, just like the one in 2 posts below..

here's that poster's image: http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/813/sticky2vp.jpg

It appears that the font has a "white shadow" which is obvious in dark background. Any solutions to it Maurice? (if you could tell what to do in the *.kon file that would be great too)

Thanks! Great widget

No rating, just downloaded it... what's the speech hotkey for Windows? Is there one? On a mac, obviously it's cmd-space... but I can't figure out what it would be for Win. Any help is appreciated.

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/813/sticky2vp.jpg

The font has an odd white halo on my Windows XP SP2 machine. Anyone else getting this? I'm running dual monitors & it occurs on both of them.. DVI & VGA.

ps - yes i'm aware of the typo :P

What command to make it read aloud? There seemed to be no instructions. I only see the checkbox to activate the speech hotkey. What is the speech hotkey? Thanks.

What command to make it read aloud? There seemed to be no instructions. I only see the checkbox to activate the speech hotkey. What is the speech hotkey? Thanks.

How about a better-looking resize bezel? The current one might be suitable for a Windows user, but I think a Mac-style one would look better (four diagonal lines).

Maurice, just wanted to say I love your widget (good update as well). My friends (who don't understand Konfabulator) are always amaze that I can make my computer speak! Your paper is just good old fashion FUN! Great idea & Widget. Thanks!!
(by the way, I use windows XP & no trouble using it.)

K2.01 release has fixed my problems with writing in the paper.widget on a Windows system.

It looks great but I have Windows XP SP2 and it doesn't work. The properties menu only have the Window settings, I suggest the same as "wu haa":
-Resizeable and changeable font
-Add-on paper
-Changeable background colour and opacity
-Fixed margin

I cannot write on it, I guess I have to type some special command, I tried the one you wrote but still does not work. I know it does what it was meant for, but maybe only on a mac. Besides, the upgrades above are not quite a headache to add, or are they? Cheers.

Nice widget, but I too am not able to type in it. K2, Windows XP - I'm guessing one of those is the problem. No cursor - just sits there.

Nice e-paper.. hehe.

Suggested features:
-Resizeable and changeable font
-Add-on paper
-Changeable background colour and opacity
-Fixed margin.. margin is not good in windows. i don knw mac. the text almost go out from the margin.

Hope to see a new version with new features. i believe everyone is looking for it.

Sorry about the confusion regarding hotkeys. Command-space speaks. Command-enter runs terminal commands, & inserts their text output right after your command. I chose those key combinations because I figured no system functions were mapped to them.

I didn't really consider those with bad sight. Clear background & small text just looked good to me. As others have said, you can edit the kon file to increase the font size, & replace the background image to change the background.

Xomorf had a great idea to save the text when you move the mouse away. I don't know why I didn't add that code myself, but then I also don't know why I can do Calculus and still confuse right and left. ;-)

I don't know how these widgets are tested for compatibility. I made it on a Mac before Konfabulator worked with Windoze, so I have no idea how it works on those machines. I have Konfabulator 2.0 for Mac & Paper still works.

Maurice- After I installed K2, Paper quit working. can't type in the text field. There is no longer an "I" beam cursor, just an arrow head :-(

The widget worked super with the 1.8x version of Konfabulator. I'm running XP. Would be interested in hearing if anyone else is running Paper successfully under K2.

I'm so confused. Is there a trick to type on the paper? So far it's useless...

It does not seem to work correctly... when clicking on it I expect that I would then be able to type content into it?

To see through, very hard to move.

somewhat usefull

I modified mine to save regularly on mouseExit and to display correctly using the "simple background" of Konspose. Open paper.widget in WinZip and edit Paper.kon as follows. Change the textarea tag to the below and remove the "<image ... />" tag for imgBkgrd. Edit onLoad.js and remove the two lines that resize imgBkgrd. Update these files in the paper.widget zip file, close paper, then reload paper.widget. Happy editing!!

Note, you can also change the size=12 to a larger font size. Also, change the color tag below to whatever text color you want. See the textarea section in
http://www.konfabulator.com/workshop/Konfabulator_Reference_1.8.3.pdf for more details.

<textarea name="txtNote" editable=1 scrollbar=0 width=1 height=1 hOffset=1 vOffset=1 size=12 spellcheck=1 bgOpacity=128 bgColor=#404040 onKeyDown="setNote();" >
<color>#FFFFFF</color>
<font>Arial</font>
<onMouseExit>savePreferences(); </onMouseExit>
</textarea>

Really great start, but I'd like to be able to choose the font, colors, size, and so on.

Very nice work ! I think it can be improved if users are allowed to change the font, color, etc...
Good start !

This widget ROCKS! I'ts EXACTLY what I needed all along.

I used to have the sides of my monitor and desk filled with stick notes, now it's all on the desktop in a clean, simple, non-distracting interface.

GREAT JOB (most useful widget I used yet!)

One improvement would be to have an option to stop the 'read-out-loud' half way through (it seems that once it starts reading you can't do much about it, and if you actually hav some lengthy text in there it's a pain)

THIS IS AWESOME - forgot to rate previous one

It needs a 'stop' button to make it stop reading!
I was just fooling around with the 'read out loud' option, pasted some text, but once he starts talkin' you can't stop him until the end!

how do you get it to run a terminal command
I opened up the kon script and for speech it had space and for terminal it had enter but when I hit CMD-enter nothing happens?

how do you get it to run a terminal command
I opened up the kon script and for speech it had space and for terminal it had enter but when I hit CMD-enter nothing happens?

Guys, it's a piece of cake to hack this.

Ctrl-click it in the Finder, go into Contents, then drag Paper.kon to TextEdit.

Then go down to the <textarea> tag, and change [font=8] to at least 12 or 14. Then add [font="your favourite font"] (with the "") making sure to leave a space on either side of it.

Save the document, quit TextEdit and reload it.

There you go.

Best wishes,
R¡n6+@|L

Nice that its resizable; but needs more preferences, like increase font size, or font type, turn speech on, off, opacity, color, font color etc....then it would rock;-) Currently font size is too small.

Well! On Windows, if I type more lines than the window is tall, the widget stutters and halts. Have to kill it to get my computer back. What's up with that?

Great widget! I agree that more text options would be nice. Default font is a bit too small for me.

If you edit the paper.kon script file in a text editor, you will see a line of settings for textarea which includes size=9. Change the 9 to whatever font size you want.

Great widget, but I wish it would save automatically instead of at reset. I've had a couple of, uhh, unanticipated resets (lock ups) and lost what I had typed in there.
Also, thanks for the undocumented feature of CMD+SPC. It was driving me batty until I came back here and saw that it was *supposed* to do that. :-)

Definitely a keeper!

I give a three since I can't give a 2.5. I like the concept it works great but the opacity needs to be turned up more. I use my widgets on the konfab layer only so I need it to stand out so I can see it. It also needs font size adjustment. There is also a bug when you move it on the konfab level. You have to push f8 to reset the window before you can move it again after you've move it once.

Hey Adam,
You think the Cmd-Space is so it will read your note. Hello!

Love this thing. Wish I was smart enough to increase font size.

font size... otherwise it's totally useless no?

Font size option please!!!

Another vote for adding font size and also a speech function toggle.

--MM

You can turn off speech easily! Well, simply enough -
Open package contents on the widget, open Contents, and open Paper.kon in a text editor. There's a line that mentions speech - delete it. Easy as pie, no?

I like this, but there's one bug that drives me crazy. For some reason, if I hit Cmd-Space while this widget is open, my mac speaks (yes, speaks -- as in the built-in speech synthesizer) some gibberish. I'd use this plug-in if it weren't for that.

I'd like an auto expand option and definitely more text options. Good start :)

Like Maurice says, "It does what it was meant for." Will be a helpful tool - have already started using it to outline my day. Only thing I would suggest is adding the ability to adjust the font size.