Note-taking

[tbontob]

There are times when I wish to take a few notes in a PBW game.

Bringing MS Word to the fore in a SE4 game, causes the secondary window such as log, ship/unit window, or construction queque to close.

Anybody know what can be done to prevent the closure of the secondary window when a word processor is brought up?

[Taera]

i have notepad in my quicklink tray. extremly useful. i'd recommend that or any other notepad-like program. Notepad is virtually one of the best not-taking programs because it does not take any resources. You can have 20 notepads open and still have about 90% of your resources.
Try opening 20 word documents and navigating through them... for notepad it only takes alt+tab press.

[Kamog]

Hey I wonder if you have dual monitors setup, can you play SE4 on one screen and have a word processor open on the other monitor? That would be handy...

[capnq]

I continue to be baffled by some people's aVersion to taking notes on a piece of paper. It's so much easier than alt-&ltTab&gting back and forth, and not that difficult to keep organized.

I only use Notepad for things that I plan to copy & paste somewhere else, such as a story thread like History of the Galaxy II {link}.

Using Word to take notes is like watering your garden with a firehose.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Taera:
i have notepad in my quicklink tray. extremly useful. i'd recommend that or any other notepad-like program. Notepad is virtually one of the best not-taking programs because it does not take any resources. You can have 20 notepads open and still have about 90% of your resources.
Try opening 20 word documents and navigating through them... for notepad it only takes alt+tab press.

Thanks Taera

But I am not sure what you mean by "quicklink tray". Do you mean the Quick Launch Toolbar (also called the "application launcher") which is on the taskbar [edit: just]to the right of the Start button?

[ November 23, 2002, 18:07: Message edited by: tbontob ]

[tbontob]

Originally posted by capnq:
I continue to be baffled by some people's aVersion to taking notes on a piece of paper. It's so much easier than alt-&ltTab&gting back and forth, and not that difficult to keep organized.

I only use Notepad for things that I plan to copy & paste somewhere else, such as a story thread like History of the Galaxy II {link}.

Using Word to take notes is like watering your garden with a firehose.

Actually, it is easier...at least for me.

For example, just entering a difficult spelled planet means I have to move to the right of my computer (my desk is L shaped), enter the name, go back to the computer to look at the name again and then go back to my notes to make sure I spelled it correctly. My spelling ability is good, but it fails me with respect to planets/systems.

[Gryphin]

I may be biased, (I supported it for Micro$onge for 3 years), but the outlining and book marking / linking and Graphics capicty of Word makes it a great notetaker.
If I want to save a screen shot for later referance I can Alt PrintScreen, Alt Tab and Ctrl C
Most folks consider me a lazy man. I keep telling them that is Redundant.

[Kamog]

There are advantages to taking notes on computer.
- Most of us can type faster than we can write with a pen.
- Sometimes you can grab stuff from the screen to include in your notes.
- You can easily edit what you've written.
- You can e-mail it.
- You save trees.

[Taera]

yeah, trees are the most important part.
Help the green peace! Save trees! what? ok, i'll shut up for now.

Anyway, i still consider notepad to be a powerful tool. My Documents folder on my PC is full with notes from various places (links, passwords etc) saved in .txt. Also it is a file you can upload and view from everywhere, no Version conflicts, no spelling warnings, and everyone can open it.

[Dead Meat]

Hey I wonder if you have dual monitors setup, can you play SE4 on one screen and have a word processor open on the other monitor?

SE streches across both (or 3 in my case) of the monitors. Your menu will be across across all of the monitors. Once you start the game one of the monitors goes black while the normal playing area is on only one of them. In my case, the center monitor shows the normal game area like it was on a single monitor. Other 2 are black and cover the desktop. Funny thing is though is that when you enter combat, the game will once again strech across all of the monitors.

I havn't tryed playing with any setting to see if I can make it use only 1 or 2 monitors. Would be handy though .