RocketCake Professional 6.0

This is a free update of RocketCake with performance improvements for the Windows version. You can download it here. Changes:

This update works around a problem in Windows 11 which might cause performance problems on some systems:
When designing websites with larger images using the 64 bit version of RocketCake on a recently updated Windows 11 system - the performance of the editor could become very slow.

The Windows update KB5041585 or KB5043076 might have caused this problem (but it's not entirely clear yet).
This RocketCake update improves this situation.

This update is only for the Windows version of RocketCake - the macOS version is not affected.

New supported device types:
Apple iPhone 15
Apple iPhone 15 Plus
Google Pixel 6
Samsung Galaxy A12

New downloadable components:

Sidebar Menu
Shows an animated sidebar menu when the user clicks onto a button with a smooth transition effect.
Menu entries can be added and deleted when selecting the outer "Sidebar control" container in RocketCake. Entering the text "-" creates an empty entry in order to be able to group entries nicely.

Search Engine
There is now a search engine component available for download from the component download page:
Simply put the component on a page and it will let your visitors search your whole website. This doesn't use any index, so it is only fast for small websites.
Note: This search engine will return results from all pages in your project, no matter if they are password protected or not.
You can exclude pages from the search by entering them in the list of excluded pages.
You can adjust the font and design of the result page by formatting the text "The search result will be displayed in here." - this text won't show up on your website.


Simple Age Verification
A simple age verification component to ask wether the user has a certain age. If clicked yes, the popup is removed for the whole website. If no, the user can be redirected to a special page. If you click click "Yes", the popup won't appear again. For testing, to make it appear again, remove the local storage key "ageConfirmationOverlay" under Application -> LocalStorage in the developer tools of your browser, or just delete and clear all browser settings.

Simpler Property values editing
The property window doesn't need pressing ENTER after changes anymore. Clicking into another window now will commit your changes by default.

Advanced <a> attributes
Links can now be created using some advanced attributes. The following are now supported:
- rel: For adding attributes like rel="nofollow"
- title: For adding tooltips for the link when hovering it
- id: For adding ids to all links
- download: For marking a link to let the browser download the target instea of opening it
Use the "advanced" tab in the link creation dialog to create these.



Extensions to the scripting API
so you can now create even more advanced downloadable components:
- the function rcWriteCode now has an additional optional parameter to make it possible to disable HTML Encoding when writing out code.
- Properties can now have arrays, for example to set a list of URLs, like this:
<propertyarray maxEntries="*">
<item type="string" name="file" />
<item type="string" name="link" />
<item type="bool" name="open" />
</propertyarray>

Lots of smaller improvements
The password protection mechanism now supports special symbols and unicode characters.
RocketCake extension components now also supports unicode characters everywhere.
When the 'X' on the tooltip ballon about the responsive slider on the bottom of the editor is clicked, it is now stored as well globally that this tooltip won't be shown again.
On macOS, buttons and elements with rounded corners look nicer in the editor now (there have been some aliasing artifacts on some systems)
On some systems on macOS, the color picker dialog didn't work correctly when positioned to overlap special windows, that is fixed now
Fixed a bug which might cause a potential crash when using downloadable components with localized French text
Hovering the mouse over a link directly embedded into the page now also shows the link target in a tooltip
Some template updates:
TechCompany template now uses the right aligned menu and works nicely with the new sidebar menu as well
Fixed a problem in the "Food" template (which is now renamed to "Flowerfield")

Extension components
RocketCake now supports scriptable extension components which add more functionality. You can download these from the website or even create them on your own (see the documentation).

To download them, click the "Download more" button on the component list in RocketCake.

There are already a few components available:

Simple contact form
a simple component with a configurable contact form which doesn't require any programming

Cookie overlay
Shows a cookie overlay on the website, displaying a user selected text.

Summary and Details
Shows a summary / details text on the website, that the user can view or hide by a click

Upload and send file
A form for selecting and uploading a file to the website which then gets sent to an email address

Print button
Button which prints the page when clicked, and doesn't appear itself on the printed page

Marquee
Shows a old school marquee element which scolls area of text.

Better Multi-Display support
RocketCake is now aware when you are using multiple monitors / displays:
The modal and non-modal color dialog for example is now placed automatically so that it's on the display you are working on and automatically trying not to overlap the element you are modifying while still not trying to overlap the display border.

New free website template
Gardening service:

Lots of other smaller useful improvements
The "Add a copy of an existing page" feature now lists existing pages with the folder path which is usefue when editing large websites
The 'next' and 'previous' buttons in the image gallery now have css classes 'galleryprevbutton' and 'gallerynextbutton' so you can style them easily yourself.
Text edit field now also supports "file" as input mode so you can build file input forms
Checkboxes in property window on Windows in highdpi mode now look nicer
Large images now look a lot sharper in the editor when using HDPI displays
Fixed a problem causing the navigation menu to jump sometimes in the editor while typing
RocketCake is now 64bit by default (it was a 32 bit app by default for a long time). You can still use the 32 bit app by downloading that one from the download page.
Dragging images into buttons now automatically sets the correct alignment for the image
Default javascript code editing window size is now nicer on HDPI systems
Updated webP for a security fix
And a lot more

SVG support
You can now include SVG files in your websites just like other images. The difference to normal images is that SVG files are vector graphics and scale automatically, so they look nice at any resolution. In the editor SVG animations, svg texts and some other special svg features might not show up, but they will on the previewed and final websites.



Images in Navigation menus
You can now use images in your navigation menus. Together with the SVG support, you can now for example use nicely styled hamburger menus or other symbols easily.


Shortcut for moving menu entries: You can now use Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown to move menu entries quickly

Two open / close modes for navigation menu
You can now select if a navigation menu will close when clicked on it again, or open via mouse hovering on desktop or not. In the property window of the menu, select "Advanced Settings".
There, set the new option "OpenCloseWhenClicked" to whatever mode you prefer. Some people find it more natural with the second mode, so that you can easily close the menu again by clicking on the top menu.

The font of web form elements can now be only changed using the font selection box, just like with all other elements. The property window doesn't have any entries for fonts anymore now for these elements.

More invalid macOS magic quotes replacements and filters are now detected and replaced automatically in HTML/javascript/PHP code

New website template: Gardening

In the preview of the buttons when creating a new button on a HDPI display, the captions are now centered correctly.

Fixed a case where the checkbox "don't show this message again" didn't have an effect on some systems when resizing images or previewing websites

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

Changes:
When right-clicking onto a menu item, the 'delete' menu entry now works again
When menu animations are not needed, viewport size of the page is reduced now
Minor fixes here and there

This update of the free responsive website designer includes a lot of new features. You can download it here.
Note that if you are using the professional edition, you need to upgrade your license, but there is a discount for existing users.
New in this release:

Realtime color changes
When clicking on the color buttons to change the color for example of the selected text, the dialog is now non-modal (= you don't need to click on OK or Cancel anymore) and reflects the changes you've made in realtime now - while you select a color or type a HTML color code. Clicking anywhere else will apply the changes, and you can click Undo to undo them again.
This works for most color selection buttons in the editor now, so it is much easier to adjust the design of your website.

WebP support
Added webP support: Images in the WebP format can also now be used with RocketCake. WebP is an image file format which is getting more popular and is now supported by mostly all browsers.




New free website templates
Like the 'Agency' and 'Paper Planning' template



Menu Animation
The navigation menu now has two built-in animations: "Fade" and "animate height". Enable them using the "MenuAnimations" checkbox in the property window for the menu.

Apple Silicon support
RocketCake now also runs natively on Apple Silicon, wihout the need for Rosetta

Drag an Drop support from Explorer/Finder
You can now drag files like images, pdf documents and videos directly from the Explorer and Finder into the web editor, making it much faster to create nice web designs.



Date Picker
Since this is now supported in many browsers, there is now a new element available: the date picker. You can use it in contact forms and similar to let your users pick a date.

Aligned navigation menus
RocketCake now includes the option to easily create right and center aligned navigation menus.
This was possible previously only using a few hacks - previously menus were all left aligned - but now it is a simple option you only need to select in the menu properties.


Link folders
It is now possible to link folders created within rocketcake via the hyperlink dialog.
This is useful if you want to include special folders and just link to the folder root instead of a document or page within that folder. For this, simply select a folder instead of a page as target in the dialog.

Hover effect for images
Images can now have hover effects: Changing the brightness. This is useful when using images as links.

Multi-Select for image galleries and slideshows
You can now add multiple images for slideshows and image galleries with a single dialog:
When selecting images to add to your element, in the file selection dialog, hold down ctrl and select more than one image. All selected images will then be added.

HTML 5 Video with poster images
You can select an image for HTML 5 Video elements which is shown when the video has not been started or loaded yet.

New built-in websafe fonts:
Handwriting style - ("Segoe Print, Bradley Hand, Chilanka [...]")
Industrial style - ("Bahnschrift, DIN Alternate, Franklin Gothic Medium [...]")

Lots of other smaller new changes and features:
You can now set alternate texts for images in image galleries. This is useful for SEO purposes:
Just check the "AlternateText" checkbox for the gallery and you can enter alt text for every image.
The button generation dialog now has a few more button styles and is now resizable.
Link target preview tooltips also now work nicely with sub folders
Various improvments for using the editor on highDPI screens
Generated HTML Code for bullet lists has been improved
Web form buttons now also support hover styles
The element selection dialog (like in the hyperlink creation dialog) now restores its last set size which is useful for large projects
It's now possible to directly right-click into text and edit its properties like changing hyperlinks etc without needing to select the text with left before
Preview images of templates are now bigger by default
Added support for Samsung Galaxy S22
Overlong menu entries are now also supported and easily editable in the editor
All the elements in the toolset on the right now have tooltips with a short description on what the element does exactly
The HTML and javascript code editor now works more nicely with unix style line breaks also on Windows
Video elements and PDF files now show their file name in the editor
Generated CSS style class names are now a bit easier to read
Image Galleries now use code to remove CLS (= cumulative layout shifts)
When using image galleries with no border but hover styles for hovering the border, the gallery no longer flickers
Font preview in font selection combobox now shows font as it was selected in the browser if the first few font families are not available in the os but others are

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.