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On the other hand, it does read and write Tomboy's files . Displays the small,
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normal, large and huge fonts Bold, Italics and bullets. Highlight is, at present
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replaced wit red coloured text. It links to notes with matching names (and has a
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replaced with red coloured text. It links to notes with matching names (and has a
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a switch to stop that).
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File syncs with Tomboy (and itself). Autosaves.
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There are binary install kits for Linux, Windows and Mac.
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If you want to build your own (or, please, help with development) that too is easy.
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Requires Free Pascal, Lazarus and the KControls component to build. I have been
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working with Lazarus 1.8rc4. Its expected 1.8 will be formally released soon.
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working with Lazarus 1.8rc3 and 1.8, just released.
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Use the bitbucket version of KControls.
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Lazarus and Free Pascal support heaps of other platforms too and I suspect the
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TrayIcon, in MainUnit. A bit of extra Window code needed in EditBox because of
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Ah, and its possible and undesirable, to run two or more instances of this App.
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And there is a memory leak in the Mac version so, to be safe, don't let it sit
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running for a long length of time, we are working on this upstream problem.
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This release will also compile under Mac OSX 64bit Cocoa but there are even more
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memory leaks there and I do not recommend it for normal use.
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If you run it within the debugger, remember that there are several handled
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exceptions, the debugger insists on telling you about them so make sure you
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press "continue". Outside the debugger, you will not be aware of this happening.
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Over time, expect this file to contain quite a lot about tomboy-ng's internal workings
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* Load up new binary and do a sync. Exit.
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* Remove config dir (eg) ~/.config/tomboy-ng and all notes ~/.local/share/tomboy-ng/*
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* Start App and point Notes Dir to default place.
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* Start App and point Notes Dir to default place, save config.
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* Make a new note. Exit note and then reload. Delete it. There is no local manifest
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at this stage so make sure thats the case.
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* Create a new note. Add a set of bullets and mix up some formatting. Exit and reload.

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