Notepad (Vladimir)

[Nephyrin]

Short Description: A simple tabbed notepad window.

Wiki Page: http://www.wowwiki.com/Notepad

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[zimeron]

Just use mapnotes.

[W@KK0]

Map notes is limiting. Prefer the ability to have access to a scribble pad as this, and that its accessible by all the characters.

[pail]

The NotesUNeed addon is growing and seems maybe it would be a good alternative for a more Robust notepad type addon if that were desired. I don't personally use NotesUNeed because I don't ever find myself wanting to write down notes in game. I just use a pen and paper at the computer. But, just making a suggestion that NotesUNeed may be a better addon and I know it gets updated/maintained very regularly.

[Dark Imakuni]

I prefer Parchment (http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=492).

[HunterZ]

There needs to be an easier way to get to this addon. I think it's currently under Earth or something? I always forget it's there because there's no direct button for it on my screen. I should probably make a macro button to open it.

[tussey]

This addon needs the ability to store linked items (shift-click)

That's the main reason I don't use it :( I was going to make a list of items I needed and where they dropped but I found myself limited and unable to use the addon. :( my .02

[HunterZ]

I agree with tussey - after not using Notepad for weeks, I decided to try to use it to jot down a list of items I wanted to send to various guild members. I was disappointed to find that I couldn't link items.

[DavidCanada]

Hey guys...

I'd like to get the text out of this program and put it in a regular text file.

Where's it stored on your computer?

--Dave.

[KarlKFI]

In the SavedVariables folder in your wtf under the name of the addon.
Please no bumping.

[DavidCanada]

Sorry about that. I come from forums where bumping is a commonly accepted method of bumping a thread (and bumping threads is accepted too).

Anyone want to shoot me a PM on why that's not encouraged here?

Anyways, I've found that if you open this file in notepad, it's pretty straight-forward to bring it to another text file. When you're done that, just replace all the \0's (not sure what that line break char is) with spaces and you're good to go.

[dope_dedope]

how do you bring up the notepad???

[Miravlix]

Configure a key for it in keybinding, or use the Earth menu's Notepad button.

[Nubia]

I configured a key for it under Keybindings and NOTHING HAPPENS when I click it!

I've not been able to access this Notepad program since the patch because I cannot open my Earth Menu. I have made several posts for Technical Support under both "Earth Menu Not Working" and "Notepad" but have still not recieved any information to get either working again.

Sad :-((

[Miravlix]

Sorry, your system is too messed up for me to know how to fix it then.

[morbid_o]

I configured a key for it under Keybindings and NOTHING HAPPENS when I click it!

I've not been able to access this Notepad program since the patch because I cannot open my Earth Menu. I have made several posts for Technical Support under both "Earth Menu Not Working" and "Notepad" but have still not recieved any information to get either working again.

Sad :-((

if you have a button, but nothing happens when you click it, you can try temporarily moving the layout-cache.txt file for the affected character and logging in to see if things were moved off-screen

[pockets]

Check out TinyPad, it's awesome. I've been using it for months.

Might be a bit hard to find, while all the major "we have every mod under the sun" sites get their acts together after being bombarded with surfers looking for their mods after the 2.0 patch, but it's worth it if you *need* a simple notepad... and you can run scripts from within the pad, removing the blizzard macro size limitation.

[Seliar]

Hi Cosmos, and users.

I can see that there are several suggestions to replacements, but why not modify the old version to work again.

I've been programming php, asp, javascript and others for years now, and never really tried programming lua. But after I saw that there were no maintainer for notepad, I decided to modify my notepad to work in WoW 2, and so it does.

And yes it works with the same savedvariables from before. If you want I can upload the modified version, if that is possible.

Must say that I removed a lot of code, connected to earth and so on. Can always try to remodify it after most of the cosmos addons are working again.

[Bashman]

I can see that there are several suggestions to replacements, but why not modify the old version to work again.

Hello,

I want this great little addon back! I tried several other notepad-addons, but they do not have the functionality and "feel" of the broken one. If Seliar could make his version public in some way, I would be very very happy again... *g*

Thanks

[Bashman]

Thanks for reanimating Notepad!

:-)

[netza]

the text I write in notepad, is it stored in any file so I can read it outside wow?

[Daylight]

if im not toally mistaken thats stored in
WTF/account/youraccount/SavedVariables/SocialMods.lua

Well thats Geowar's SocialNotesEditor, been a long while since i last used that as primary editor, switched to NotesUNeed.

If notepad is a compeletly different addon to SN, this doesnt help of course.
If so look in the same place for some notepad.lua

[Gryphon]

Yes, different SavedVariables/Notepad.lua

[netza]

No, did only found some regular code there. :(

[xerty]

My notepad.lua does contain what it should.
Are you looking at the correct place (though I can't think of any other location) :
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6606/notepaddm5.png

[netza]

yes, its exactly where i'm looking and all there is :


Notepad_EntriesGlobal = {
}
Notepad_SelectedEntryGlobal = 0
Notepad_Config = {
["acceptDuplicates"] = false,
["acceptNotes"] = true,
}

[xerty]

Strange. If you have entered stuff into Notepad then there should be something in that file.
Mine looks like this (I've only copied some of the entries here, there are more ;)) :
Notepad_EntriesGlobal = {
{
["title"] = "Weapon Masters",
["body"] = "Woo Ping - Human\nStormwind - Trade District\nCrossbow, Daggers, One/Two-handed Swords, Polearms,\nStaff\n\nByliwyf - Dwarf\nIronforge - Military Ward\nFist, Guns, One/Two-handed Axes, One/Two-handed Maces\n\nBixi Wobblebonk - Gnome\nIronforge - Military Ward\nCrossbow, Daggers, Throwing Weapons\n\nIlyenia Moonfire - Night Elf\nDarnassus - Warrior's Terrace\nBow, Daggers, Fist, Staff, Throwing Weapons\n\n\n\nSayoc - Orc\nOrgrimmar's Valley of Honor\nBows, Daggers, Fist Weapons, One/Two-handed Axes, Thrown Weapons\n\nHanashi - Troll\nOrgrimmar's Valley of Honor\nBows, One/Two-handed Axes, Staves, Thrown Weapons\n\nArchibald - Undead\nUndercity War Quarter\nCrossbows, Daggers, One/Two-handed Swords, Polearms\n\n- Thunder Bluff\nGuns, One/Two-handed Maces, Staves",
}, -- [1]
{
["title"] = "Dry Times",
["body"] = "Thunderbrew Lager,Grimbooze Thunderbrew, \nWestfall Hills (dagger hills), Kill golems for hops \n\nMerlot,Gallna Winery (52,68 ), \nStormwind,8S 15C \n\nspeak to the Merlot Connoiseur \n\nMoonshine, inn, \nDarkshire, 12S 65C \n\nSweet Rum, Lion’s Pride Inn Barkeep Dobbins, \nGoldshire, 6S 75C",
}, -- [2]
}
Notepad_SelectedEntryGlobal = 0
Notepad_Config = {
["acceptDuplicates"] = false,
["acceptNotes"] = true,
}

Not sure what happened there with Lion’s Pride - Looks like I need to tidy that entry up :D

[Daylight]

No clue, only thing i could think of that it saves setting per character.

Looked in my notepad.toc and it does not for mine.

Id try a fulltext search on all files in your wtf folder looking for something which is saved in your notepad, that way you should find the file.

[xerty]

To the best of my knowledge. NotePad is designed to be stored in the central SavedVariables so that all characters on all realms can access what you have written, no matter which character wrote it. If it was stored on a per character setting, it would be of little use to me tbh.
Still strange that the op cannot find their entry :?

[xerty]

Just carried out a little experiment.
Moved my notepad.lua and notepad.lua.bak to a safe location and entered the game. As expected. No notes contained within Notepad. Created a new note and then logged out of the game. Checked SavedVariables and a new notepad.lua was there as expected. Opened it up and it had what I just created present.

Now, this may be a really stupid question. But I got to ask ;)
Netza, have you created any notes in Notepad ?

[Daylight]

Yea, thats also an option i thought about.

Its actually not notepad, but maybe a different addon which works / binds as notepad, looks like notepad - as in my first post i used socialnotes editor as notepad before i started using NotesUNeed. Perhaps something similar happened.

Another thing you could try: Before you load up a character, disable all addons but notepad, then load that character edit something in notepad, stay in game a bit then quit client. Check your savedvariables directory again for files changed last, one of em should be the savefile for your notepad.

[netza]

Found social notes in my addons, and that was it. ;/ sorry for disturbing, bye. :P

[Asegest]

hmmm...
In the kaos configuration there is a entry under other/notepad:

[ ] Save the notepad based on profile.

The comment for it is "Make Notepad save pr. profile instead of one global notepad for all chars"

Now I wonder what wold happen if it got ticked. (default is not ticked)

Regards.

[Daylight]

guess it will save notes per character

if charcater is meant with profile