| Add new colors to your Stickies' Notes.
Jonathan Feeney requested a simple way to add new color styles to Apple's Stickies. In appreciation of Valentine's Day, let's make our notes as red as roses.
 Each note is comprised of three colors. The main backgound (1), the border/title bar (2), and the darker widget outline (3).
 To change the colors, open a copy of Stickies in ResEdit and find the Colr resource.
Open it with a double click.
 Select an unused color, in this example "Black and White", and open it with a double-click.
 As we have seen in several Previous Edits, the color is displayed in hex, with the value repeated.
For example, the main background color is represented in the highlighted section in the graphic on the left.
The color I have selected (with the help of Apple's Color HTML color picker) is FF 80 80. The value of each color is repeated, so the end result is: FFFF 8080 8080.
 The next six hex numbers represent the window border and title bar.
FF 33 33.
 And the last six hex numbers are for the widgets.
CC 00 00.
Once you have entered the colors, close the ID window.
 From the menu, select Get Resource Info and change the name from "Black and White" to "Valentine Red"!
You can now close the Colr window.
 Being the conscientious editors that we are, we need to also change the menu selection.
Find the MENU resources and open them with a double-click.
Find ID#132 and open it.
Select the menu item "Black and White" and change it.
When your done, save your work and quit ResEdit.
 Your new copy of Stickes is all ready to use. Create a new note and select the color from the menu!
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