RocketCake Professional 4.8

Font rendering and selection of fonts not available on the system has been reworked and works now much more similar to what most browsers are doing
16 new built-in templates, all website templates have been modernized:
higher quality images
modernized design


When using the new feature to move the entries in slideshows and image galleries up and down easily, optional description texts for these images are now also moved as well.


Showing invalid fonts (=non-existing) on macos looks now nicer
The default breakpoints for galleries changing the amount of image columns has now been set to a bit larger default values - adjusting to the now average larger phone screen sizes.
Small fixes for Windows 11 22H2 and macOS Monterey
Text shadow rendering now faster on some systems
HTML Code editor now has a mode for old, very slow systems, making text drawing very fast there as well

This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.
Changes:

Added support for the iPhone 14
The editor now shows the 5 most used font families by default in the top of the font selection:



New free built-in template:


There is now a command to sort folders and files alphabetically descending or ascending. This makes it easier to organize larger website projects:



You can now right-click image lists in slideshows and image galleries to move the entries up and down easily:



It is now possible more easily to rearrange folders by dragging them onto pages or other folders.
Inline PHP code now also works correctly when there are multiple code sections of inline PHP in one container.
(This is about the inline PHP code feature of the Pro edition: You can type directly PHP tags like "<?PHP" and "?>" anywhere and the code gets emitted like that without encoding)
The 'x' button for closing images opened from galleries now has an own class name ("galleryclosebutton") so you can manually style it if you want to.
Several improvements for the HTML code generation

This is a free update with minor new features and a few improvements and bug fixes. You can download it here.

Changes:
Added a few new default web safe font families like Gill Sans, Century Gothic, Baskerville, and Segoe (although the latter isn't available on macOS, but still has an alternative set)
Fixed a problem which caused the font family combo box to stop working on some systems when typing into it directly.
Now you can enter your own fonts manually again if you were affected by this.
The color selection dialog can now also be closed by pressing ENTER
Fixed a few translation errors
Fixed a problem on highDPI displays when using multiple monitors
Small improvements everywhere

CLS support and CEO improvements
RocketCake now supports techniques to reduce CLS (= cumulative layout shifts). A better CLS value of your website might also likely cause better search result performance.
You don't need to do anything with your website for this feature to work, just normally click "publish" and upload your website.
Websites created with RocketCake 4.5 automatically use this feature.


Option to show invisible characters
It is now possible to let the editor show new lines, tabs and whitespace by toggling the view for showing invisible characters.
This makes it now much easier to debug your layouts and find out how your responsive design behavies in different circumstances.


Improved unicode and emoji support
- Fixed a problem causing comma separators in chinese text not to be correctly encoded sometimes in the HTML
- Fixed a bug causing some special emojis like 'FACE WITH MEDICAL MASK' (U+1F637) not to show up correctly in generated webpages
When using vertically merged table cells, the cell now automatically grows correctly with the entered content
Added an overwrite prompt warning when saving over existing files
Fixed a problem causing errors like "Activation context generation failed" to appear in the windows event log when RocketCake was started.
Fixed a problem causing RocketCake to hang sometimes when deleting a row in a complex table
Fixed a problem causing the previous color picker HTML Code to "shine through" sometimes on some Windows 11 systems
Various other small improvements everywhere

This is a free update with new features and minor bug fixes. You can download it here.

Changes:

Better compatibility with some modern FTP servers
The editor is now able to store the positions of its docked/undocked windows. There is now an option so that it will startup again exactly as you arranged the docked windows during your last session. The default for this new option is to behave like before: RocketCake won't remember the position of the windows. You have to check this option to make it active first.

The editor now uses autoscrolling to current text and/or marker position and is now easier to use that way for larger websites.
The editor now correctly calculates word breaks also for texts in the languages Chinese, Japanese and Korean
Fixed a problem with the cursor blinking not clearly sometimes on some highdpi displays
Syntax highlighting color in the HTML code editor has been adjusted a bit

The edit hyperlink button is no longer disabled when there is no option to place a hyperlink, instead a message box will appear now instead.
Tabs on macOS now look much nicer
The slideshow element doesn't animate the first image shown anymore
Lots of smaller improvements everywhere

Overall improved code generation everywhere
Added support for iPhone 13 Pro
Added support for 'tel:' and 'sms:' hyperlinks
Property window now is more compact when using scaled resolutions in windows
Recent file list now updates priority also when choosen from menu
Improved HTML code generated for large responsive images layed out directly in the document
New web links now use "https://" as default instead of the outdated "http://"
Fixed a bug causing the editor to start up in a too large window on scaled resolutions without highDPI
About dialog now looks nicer on non-high-DPI screens
Various smaller improvements and bug fixes
Fixed a bug causing mobile menus not to appear sometimes when used together with a master page in certain circumstances

Улучшена совместимость с macOS Big Sur: На некоторых системах RocketCake аварийно завершал работу при запуске. Теперь это исправлено.
Улучшен перевод на японский язык
Программа установки Windows теперь локализована и теперь не только на английском языке
Исправлена ошибка в Windows highDPI, из-за которой меню иногда не отображалось в правильном положении на сгенерированном сайте

Это обновление бесплатного конструктора отзывчивых сайтов включает в себя множество новых функций. Вы можете скачать его здесь.
Новое в этом выпуске:

Поддержка HighDPI
При использовании Windows RocketCake теперь поддерживает дисплеи HighDPI. Вы получаете более четкие элементы управления и HTML-редактор с высоким разрешением. На macOS RocketCake уже некоторое время поддерживает дисплеи Retina.



Быстрый просмотр размера изображения
При наведении курсора на изображение всплывающая подсказка теперь показывает полезную информацию о нем: Название, размер и текущий размер изображения.
Это позволяет легко оптимизировать размеры изображений для различных типов экранов.


Поддержка языка HTML
Теперь вы можете установить язык страницы с помощью нового параметра "Язык" для каждой страницы.
В результате верхний тег html будет выглядеть, например, так
<html lang="en">
если в качестве языка указан "en". Это работает только в профессиональной версии RocketCake.



Управление лицензионными ключами для организаций
Если вы хотите использовать RocketCake на ПК с одним и тем же лицензионным ключом, используемым многими пользователями, теперь это тоже возможно:
Достаточно один раз запустить RocketCake от имени администратора и зарегистрировать ключ с помощью меню Help -> Register.
После этого ключ будет храниться на каждой машине (ранее он хранился только для каждого пользователя), и RocketCake сможет использовать любой пользователь, работающий на этой машине.

Встроенные PDF-документы теперь подгоняют первую страницу PDF-документа под высоту устройства.
Кроме того, в документации теперь показано, как можно легко сделать PDF-документ прокручиваемым и на устройствах iOS, хотя Safari на iOS не поддерживает эту функцию.

Веб-сайты, открытые в RocketCake, теперь автоматически фокусируются в окне свойств, что упрощает изменение значений их свойств.

Список основных страниц теперь также хорошо работает с вложенными папками: Если у вас большой сайт с большим количеством страниц во вложенных папках и несколькими главными страницами, список главных страниц для выбора теперь также показывает папки, в которых находится страница, что значительно упрощает выбор нужной главной страницы.

Приложение для macOS теперь нотариально заверено, и вы больше не получаете пугающие сообщения "это приложение от неизвестного разработчика" из macOS при первом запуске RocketCake.

Программа установки RocketCake теперь по умолчанию устанавливает ярлыки для всех пользователей системы, поскольку многие люди просили об этом.

released!This update of the free responsive website designer adds some useful improvements here and there, and some bugfixes:

• Added support for the 'required' attribute in text fields. When checked, the browser won't submit a form when the text is empty and ask the user to fill it out.
  
  
  
• Changed the default size where the navigation menu switches to the mobile version to 550 pixels
• Added dutch translation (thanks to Arnold for this!)
• Improved italian translation (thanks to tfr for this!)
• Fixed a problem causing the default font to be wrong sometimes for autogenerated mobile navigation menus.
• Lots of smaller improvements everywhere

This update of the free responsive website designer adds some useful improvements here and there, and some bugfixes:

• Styled buttons now also support images and other elements on them. Note: this only works for newly created styled buttons. If you have old buttons from a previous RocketCake version in your project you need to replace them for this feature.
  
  
  
• Rescaled images on your website in the editor now look exactly as in most browsers. Previously, they could look a bit more blurry under special circumstances.
• Content in H1, H2, H3, etc tags now is generated very SEO friendly by aggressively stripping redundant styles and nested tags automatically inside. However you style your headings, you will now in most cases end up with code looking like this: <h1 id="heading1id">Heading Text</h1></li>
• Fixed a problem causing images not to be reloaded instantly sometimes when the menu command for this was selected.
• Fixed a problem which caused the MacOS version of RocketCake not to load files properly sometimes when special unicode symbols where used in the HTML code.
• Fixed a problem on macOS causing elements not to be pasteable sometimes on certain elements

FTPS support
In addition to SFTP and FTP support, RocketCake now also supports the FTPS protocol. Uploading your project to any host should now be very easy that way.
Added built-in support for email and date input fields
Default language selection on macOS now works better on newer operating system versions
Improved error messages shown to user when connection to an FTP server fails.
Folders now store if they have been open or closed in the project. So if you open your project later again, the folders will restore its previous state.
Fixed a bug in the gallery image switching code, which sometimes causing to show wrong images when scrolling forward.

This update of the free responsive website designer includes new features, updates and bugfixes:

• New galleryThe image gallery component has been mostly rewritten and now includes a ton of new features like:
  • Aspect ratio independent preview thumb images causing all images to look uniform in size even if they aren't
  • Close button icon for opened images (in layers)
  • Non-scrollable background when a layer is open
  • The aspect ratio option is of course configurable, also so that the gallery looks exactly like in previous rocketcake versions
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• Improved navigation menuThe menu now automatically positions itself so it won't go outside the screen area, no matter how large the menu on your website is. For example when you have a large menu and align it to the right of the page, the dropdown menu now will align itself automatically a bit to the left so that it is fully visible and won't overlap the right screen border anymore.
  
  
  
  
• Hyperlink PreviewsWhen hovering a hyperlink, the target URL of the hyperlink is now displayed as tooltip.
  
  
  
  
• Possibility to change HTML IDsIt is now possible to change the HTML Id of every generated code element. This is a feature wanted by a lot of professional users.
  To do this, right-click any element, select "HTML Code...", click the "..." button and select "Change HTML ID...". You will see the change in the code immediately.
  
  
  
  
• Updated mobile devicesNew devices supported: iPhone 10, Samsung S10, and more. You can select these from the 'View' menu and on the bottom of the editor page.
  
  
• New TemplatesThe editor now contains some new, lots of improved and more modern free website templates
  
  
  
  
• macOS Mojave and Catalina compatibilityRocketCake now runs nicely on Mojave and Catalina. There have been some incompatibilities and bugs introduced by Apple in those macOS versions which RocketCake now detects and works around them. It also supports some new features in those operating systems. In Detail:
  • Added support for DarkMode
  • On some systems, comboboxes like the font selection box wouldn't open somtimes. This is fixed now.
  • When clicking 'Preview', the Safari browser wasn't able to show the preview files sometimes. This works now.
  • The HTML Code and color on the font color buttons weren't visible sometimes. This is no longer an issue.
  • Mojave and Catalina had troubles uploading files to sftp sites, this is is fixed now.
  • Fixed a problem causing the font height to be displayed wrongly under certain circumstances
  • Fixed a problem causing the background to be shown black sometimes in new button dialog
  • The view with slider on the bottom of the HTML editor view is now a slider instead of a scrollbar
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• Lots of other improvements
  • The hint that the mobile menu is auto-generated is now a bit more clearly visible.
  • You can now press CTRL+B when text is selected and toggle between bold and non-bold font.
  • Numeric text input fields now have no max and min values by default anymore. Also, if the max value is set to the same value as the min value, no max and min values are used, so you can enter arbitrarily long values.
  • The MacOS version now looks nicer on retina displays
  • Lots of translations have been improved. The spanish, italian, frensh and russian translations are now much better.
  • Fixed a problem where sometimes in the generated HTML, whitespace would appear in some browsers between style changes due to pretty printing.
  • Fixed a problem causing Gallery 'next' image button not to work sometimes in Edge browser
  • Fixed a bug causing the web form text field not to retain its mode when set to numeric mode after loading.

Faster editor when using large imagesIf you are using large images on a webpage, the editor is now much faster and editing your website feels more smooth now.

Search engine improvementsThere have been various improvements made in RocketCake, causing your website to rank better automatically in Google and other web search engines. If you have an existing page made with RocketCake, all you need to do is to re-upload your existing website with RocketCake 3.1, and everything should be done automatically for you.

Better looking galleryThe image gallery element preview/thumb images are now created a bit bigger to make them look nicer.

Editor behavior change: When you have a line ending with a hyperlink and press ENTER on that line, the hyperlink is no longer continued on the next line. This way, it is easier to create lists of text lines with hyperlinks.
Text Edit Fields where the background is set to "invisible" now actually have an invisible background and not the default of the browser (like 'white' in Chrome)
The 64 bit version of RocketCake now also shows the latest Windows 10 common controls instead of reverting to the old windows style
RocketCake and RocketCake documents now have a new icon
Fixed a problem causing the menu not to open sometimes when using very large menus and russian text inside of them
Fixed a bug causing RocketCake to crash sometimes when clicked right into the element browser of an empty project
Fixed a bug causing the built-in FTP client not to upload anything when using the "Publish to the Internet" feature and no document was open.

Box Shadows
The editor now supports box shadows, for all elements. Select an element like a button, a container, menu, image or similar, right-click and select "Box Shadow...". It works similar to the existing text shadow UI.
 
Automatic Mobile Navigation Menu
The navigation menu now by default uses the "hamburger menu icon" in mobile mode and generates the mobile menu entry lists automatically from the big, desktop menu version.
You can still switch to a manually created mobile menu by selecting "manually created" in the property window.
 
64-bit Support
If you are creating large website with many images, there is now a 64 bit version of RocketCake available on the download page, which lets you do that. It basically allows to use much more memory, and works with much bigger projects. The macOS version includes 32 and 64 bit builds in the same download.
Inline PHP code
You can now write PHP tags anywhere on any website, and the content of then is treated as PHP code, if you are creating PHP pages. Like

<?PHP echo ('hello world'); ?>


With this, you can for example directly print PHP variables on a button, inside a styled text, a heading, or similar.
This works only in the Professional edition of RocketCake.
 
MacOS backwards compatibility
RocketCake works now again even with older MacOS versions, for example High Sierra 10.13 (2017) back up to Mavericks 10.9 (from 2013)
New templates
There are now a lot of new default templates in the editor to choose from, and the old, existing ones have been partially modernized.
 
New built-in button styles
Added a lot of new default button styles to select from.
 
Updated mobile devices
New devices supported: iPhone X, XS Max, Google Pixel, Sony XPeria, and more. You can select these now also from the 'View' menu, additionaly.
 
Faster layout engine
The layout engine has been improved a bit and its performance is now about 20% - 40% better in several circumstances.
New Element Browser
The element browser has been completely rewritten and is now much faster and easier to use. Some users also reported, that previously, the element browser caused RocketCake to crash occasionally on their system, this is now also fixed.

 

Lots of other smaller improvements, such as
There is now a new command for making all rows of a table the same height of the currently selected one
Scrolling with the mouse wheel in the editor is now much faster
Better automatic font pre-selection for menu entry creation
Separator editing and preview in menus is now much nicer. Add an entry with the text "-", and you get a separator, which is also shown in the preview as on the website.
There are now commands for easily moving menu items up or down. Just right-click onto a sub menu entry, and use the "move up" or "move down" commands to move them
More modern looking editor user interface
When background images are used in the 'cover' mode of large pages, rendering in the editor now also looks exactly like done in the major browsers
The toolset palette has been reorganized quite a bit, and now includes all tools on one page.
The generated login/password page is now a bit nicer (but still can be customized, of course)
CSS Shadows for sub menus can now be adjusted using the new BoxShadow feature. Just select the sub menu of a navigation menu, right-click and select "Box shadow".

macOS: For some users, combo boxes like the font or device selection didn't work on Mojave. This is fixed now.
macOS: RocketCake is now a 64bit only application.
Updated Japanese translation

- New Templates:
Added a lot of new free website templates: For restaurants, hotels, consultants, and more.

- Password protection:
You can now easily password protect your webpages by adding the "password protection" element
onto your page. You can add an unlimited amount of users and passwords for those.
There is also a new tutorial showing how to use this new feature.

- Image reloading:
There is now a new command for reloading all the used images from disk. Use the menu
File -> Reload all images
for this.

- Better slide show:
The slide show element now is a lot more flexible and easier to use.
It has a new default image adjusting mode: 'Cover'. It adjusts
the scale of the shown image always according to width or height automatically, so that no gap is shown.
That way, you don't need any breakpoints for your slideshow to make them look good on very small screens,
they will always look nicely.
In order to make it adjust to the aspect ratio of the image, you can also use the 'auto' property for its height.

- It is now possible to quickly move the cursor in the text between words by holding down control while pressing the cursor keys
- It is now possible to copy and paste website pages using the clipboard
- Most templates now also have sub pages and are easier to customize.
- The editor now only asks for confirmation when you close it when there are unsaved changes.
- The heading number can now be adjusted in the property window for heading elements
- Fixed a bug causing heading numbers not to be set correctly when copying and pasting