Adding Notes to Closed Notes Application

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Adding Notes to Closed Notes Application (1/14/97)

Q: How do I add a note to the soup without having to have the Notepad application open? MakeTextNote doesn't work if Notes is closed.

A: You should use MakeTextNote to create the data, then add it to the soup entry using soup:AddXmit or uSoup:AddToStoreXmit (or one of the other soup functions.)

MakeTextNote always creates a frame with all the correct data that the Notes application requires. If the 2nd paramater (addit) is TRUE, it will add that frame to the Notes soup and show the note on the screen. If addIt is NIL, then the frame is returned.

It's the adding and showing that require the Notes app to be open, not the frame creation. For instance, to add a note to the default store, do something like:

    newNote := GetRoot().paperroll:MakeTextNote("Here is a sample note", nil);
    GetUnionSoup("Notes"):AddToDefaultStoreXmit(newNote, '|appSym:SIG|)