Hi Michael

Honestly not sure; I’d need to look into a bit more, and whether the text could be parsed to do that.

My gut reaction is no, as the note body I believe is in RTF format, while HUDs are written in HTML/CSS.

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

Maybe there is an alternative solution?

Hi Andy,

I use boldface and similar RTF style features in order to make notes more easy to read. It'd be handy if the formatting was visible at the HUD level. Not a critical issue, obviously, but a preference.

all the best,

Mike

Michael

I’ll look into it and see if there’s a solution.

Cheers

Seems that the Widget does not support more than 15 lines. I had a 25 lines notes which did not appears (the sentence "No HUD note was missing" meaning that there was a note).

After removing a few lines, the HUD note appears again.

Also, is it possible to have a scroll bar in the HUD field (for long notes).

Thanks

Olivier

I found the problem after reading other threads... I had a quote sign inside the text and I did not now that this character was forbidden in notes...
Thanks

Olivier

PS: still, a scroll bar would be usefull

Hi Oliver

Just got back to my machine after the holidays.

Glad you found the problem.

I'll make a note of the scroll bar request, though I’m not sure it’s something I can control from within the widget.

Cheers

This widget is just wonderful - I find it extremley useful - it should be part of Daylite - can't understand how this has not attracted more comment - what am I missing?

Gary

Thank you for the kind words; it is very much appreciated.

Cheers

Andy

I've tried editing the template.html file, but when I view it in textedit or even Safari it appears empty. Am I doing something wrong?

If you are viewing it in Safari it will appear blank, as it is being rendered by the browser engine and doesn’t actually display anything.

As for TextEdit: you are right, it also appears blank, and I have no idea why, though I suspect it’s trying to render it as a web page as well!

Suggest you try editing it in another text editor, like Textmate or BBedit. (Or even Xcode if you have the developer tools installed.)

Any web page editor should also open it okay.

HTH

Many thanks Andy

That worked a treat.

Adam

Hi Andy! I am getting into gear using Daylite and looking to make things even more efficient. The HUD note is a good thing, but I don't prefer to have to enter {HUD} into the subject line every time. What I WOULD prefer is to create a CATEGORY called HUD Note in Daylite's Categories editor. Then whenever I create a Note that I want to appear in the HUD, I simply assign the Category "HUD Note" to that note. It is faster than typing {HUD} and I don't have to look at the string "{HUD}" when I am in the Activity view. Could you create a modified HUD Note widget that could do the trick?

Kevin

I decided against using the category to key-on, as you can only use one category per object and it didn’t make sense to ‘use up’ the categorisation facility to tag HUD notes when their seemed to be better uses for it.

To be honest, I could change that, but I don’t want to have to start supporting two different versions of the free Widget, and nor do I want to get involved in writing custom Widgets for people unless on a paid-for basis.

There is, of course, nothing stopping you opening up the widget source files and figuring out how to do that yourself, or changing the ‘{HUD}’ text to something more appropriate and useful to your needs. In that sense the Widget is open-source and (reasonably) well documented (ahem!).

(If you go through the various HUD Widget threads you should be able to get enough information as to how to go about doing that; it’s not that complicated if you’ve done even simple programming or HTML.)

Cheers

Thanks Andy - I understand not wanting to use up the categorisation facility on this. Will look into this to see what we can do to modify it ourselves.

How do you/where do you add a HUD note. I've installed v 2.1, and activated it, but I haven't a clue how to actually add a note