rexboggs5
21-03-2007, 01:14 PM
One feature of AS3 that I really like are 'stickies'. A sticky is a shape, usually a rectangle or rectangle with rounded corners, onto which I can write things. The writing becomes attached to the shape, so if I move the shape, the writing goes with it. Cool beans!
Why do I like stickies? Well as a secondary maths teacher, at times I run out of room on the ActivBoard. Until I learned about stickies I often had to do an awkward copy/paste/resize onto a new page so I could continue.
I now have stickies lurking on the edges of my pages (with most of the sticky off the board), so if I need more room to write or draw, I can just drag a sticky into the board, annotate on the sticky, and when finished with it, I then move it (with the attached writing) back to the edge of the board. It is a neat way to increase 'board space' on the fly.
This has worked marvellously well, except.... if I annotate on the page before dragging in a sticky, the annotations aren't hidden when the sticky is dragged over them, as they were created after the sticky.
So.....
My feature request is to add a 'Always on Top' to the Object Edit menu.
That way I can set 'Always on Top' as a property of my stickies, and I know that the stickies will always hide whatever annotations I may subsequently add.
Whew, that was a bit long-winded, did I make myself clear :confused:?
Cheers
Rex
Why do I like stickies? Well as a secondary maths teacher, at times I run out of room on the ActivBoard. Until I learned about stickies I often had to do an awkward copy/paste/resize onto a new page so I could continue.
I now have stickies lurking on the edges of my pages (with most of the sticky off the board), so if I need more room to write or draw, I can just drag a sticky into the board, annotate on the sticky, and when finished with it, I then move it (with the attached writing) back to the edge of the board. It is a neat way to increase 'board space' on the fly.
This has worked marvellously well, except.... if I annotate on the page before dragging in a sticky, the annotations aren't hidden when the sticky is dragged over them, as they were created after the sticky.
So.....
My feature request is to add a 'Always on Top' to the Object Edit menu.
That way I can set 'Always on Top' as a property of my stickies, and I know that the stickies will always hide whatever annotations I may subsequently add.
Whew, that was a bit long-winded, did I make myself clear :confused:?
Cheers
Rex