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EditRocket Changelog

What's new in EditRocket 4.2.4

Jul 27, 2015
  • Enhancements:
  • Added better support for hi-res monitors
  • Added a preference for only displaying file modified warnings when file size changes
  • Added support for more encryption ciphers for SFTP
  • Changes:
  • COBOL syntax highligher only displays line as a comment if asterisk is in column 7
  • Upgraded SSH library
  • Search now scrolls viewable area 3 lines past the line the search result is on for better readability

New in EditRocket 4.1.12 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added option to define vertical column guides - vertical lines displaying at user-supplied column numbers configurable via the Editor tab on the preferences window
  • Added an Edit -> Delete Lines Containing option
  • Mac - Added retina display support for the 64-bit version
  • Changes:
  • FTP / SFTP Connection Window - mouse click no longer needed to connect
  • Mac 64-bit version - upgraded Java runtime environment

New in EditRocket 4.1.10 (Aug 7, 2013)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added HTML 5 doc type to HTML inserts
  • Added HTML 5 template
  • Added installation of Desktop shortcut to Linux distributions that support it
  • Changes:
  • Changed GUI to be more responsive during local or network file system waits
  • Added column selection mode indicator to editor status panel
  • Changed included JRE on Mac 64-bit version
  • Bug Fixes:
  • The Insert Text At Column dialog does not allow you to insert only spaces

New in EditRocket 4.1.5 (Jul 17, 2012)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added the ability to view images - open an image file and display the image
  • Added support for Mac retina displays
  • Changes:
  • Added Gatekeeper signing for Mac OS X Lion
  • Changed javascript validator so that undeclared identifier warnings are no longer displayed

New in EditRocket 4.1.4 (Jan 18, 2012)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added Search -> Goto Column option
  • Added Insert - Insert from File option to the Inserts menu
  • Bug Fixes:
  • PHP classes syntax highlighting issue

New in EditRocket 4.1.3 (Jan 4, 2012)

  • Changes:
  • Added support for JDK 1.7 compiler
  • Move selection left / Shift-Tab - moves first line even when tabs not selected
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Column selection mode - certain functions not working properly when multiple lines are selected such as to upper case, to lower case, etc.
  • COBOL syntax highlighting not handling periods correctly

New in EditRocket 4.1.2 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • Changes:
  • Soft tab option now factors in next tab stop when determining number of spaces to insert
  • Remember location of Function / Method Navigator
  • Remember location of Sidekicks
  • Add sleep as keyword for .sh
  • Bug Fixes:
  • In a java class, clicking on api reference button takes you to javascript reference

New in EditRocket 4.1.1 (Jun 23, 2011)

  • Enhancements:
  • Load time improvements
  • Added initial directory option to the FTP / SFTP client connection process
  • Changes:
  • Search tool on file system browser remembers preferences and is no longer modal
  • Limit the number of records that display on the FTP right-click menu
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Prepend and Append text to lines options do not allow spaces
  • Java method lookup not being run in a new thread
  • If more than a certain amount of templates, all items not displaying in the template menu
  • Control-Click does not bring up context menu on Mac for file system browser
  • Windows context-menu keyboard shortcut not working

New in EditRocket 4.1.0 (Mar 18, 2011)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added a Find File option in the search menu and file system browser for searching for a file on the system
  • Added HTML Tag Tree view in the Tools - HTML - Tag Tree option
  • Added HTML Form Wizard for inserting HTML forms
  • Added HTML Table Wizard for inserting HTML tables
  • Added HTML Ordered List Wizard for inserting ordered lists
  • Added HTML Unordered List Wizard for inserting unordered lists
  • Added HTML Link Wizard for inserting links
  • Added HTML Image Wizard for inserting images
  • Added HTML Text Area wizard for inserting text areas
  • Added HTML Checkbox Wizard for inserting HTML check boxes
  • Added HTML File Select Wizard for inserting file input types
  • Added HTML Text Input Wizard for generating text based form input types
  • Added HTML Select Box Wizard for inserting select boxes
  • Added HTML Radio Button wizard
  • Added HTML Button wizard
  • Added HTML Tag Tree to HTML Sidekick
  • Enhanced Java method navigator parser
  • Added FTP button to toolbar
  • Added inserts to right-click menu
  • Added related language inserts to inserts selector for certain languages
  • Added bottom toolbar
  • Added Open Files tab to left-hand side file system browser panel
  • Added sidekicks tab to file system browser panel
  • Added a "create new site" button to the Save and Open to ftp menu options
  • Added more lanugages support for API reference links
  • Added Preview / Show in Browser option to HTML, PHP, JSP right-click menu
  • Added JavaScript templates
  • Added PHP templates
  • Added JavaScript inserts
  • Added Text to HTML converter
  • Added a current directory link to the tab menu
  • Expanded syntax type auto detection to the use of EditRocket inserts and tools
  • Changes:
  • Spell Check - if there is text highlighted, only spell check the highlighted text
  • Change so that View Open Editors window no longer shows by default
  • Search API tool now prompts for a search string if there is no selected text
  • Bug Fixes:
  • FTP client showing a size of 0 on overwrite for some FTP servers
  • File compare tool sometimes throws error for file that have no similarities
  • First site is not displaying in save/open to ftp dropdown
  • When soft tab option is selected, and when doing a tab on selected lines, a tab character is being inserted instead of spaces
  • CSS inserts menu: Not all items fit on the display - added submenus

New in EditRocket 4.0.0 (Dec 8, 2010)

  • Added an FTP and SFTP client available in the Tools menu
  • Added open from FTP / SFTP server option
  • Added save to FTP / SFTP server option
  • Show in Browser option now prompts for which browser to launch on Windows and Mac such as Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and Internet Explorer
  • Added JavaScript compressor
  • Added JavaScript validator
  • Added Column Selection Mode option (Edit - Column Selection Mode)
  • Added Bookmark found lines option to Find / Replace tool
  • Added Edit -> Text -> Insert International Chars option
  • Added standard C library function lookup to Objective-C
  • Added standard c library autocompletion to Objective-C
  • Added auto signature display on ( for Objective-C for standard c libraries
  • Added C-style bracket event closures to Objective-C
  • Added XMLHttpRequest object to JavaScript code builder
  • Added undock tab option to the Window menu
  • Added dock all windows option to Window menu
  • Added undock all windows option to Window menu
  • Added tile undocked windows vertically to Window menu
  • Added tile undocked windows horizontally to Window menu
  • Added side by side view - user selects the tabs / windows they want to view side by side
  • Added more how to guides

New in EditRocket 3.5.7 (Aug 26, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added Tools -> Ant -> Execute Ant Build for integration with Ant builds
  • Added jump to compiler error line number option on java compiler
  • Added jump to compiler error line number option on Objective C compiler
  • Added jump to parse error line number option on PHP check syntax and execute program tools
  • Added HTML 5 tags to tag builder and auto lookup / auto complete
  • XML Validator remembers previously used schemas in a dropdown box
  • Added Execute Ant Build to the java sidekick and java popup menu
  • Changes:
  • Changed gcc syntax for objective-c compiler for newer versions of gcc
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Turning off open previously open files at startup preference has no effect
  • If too many open tabs, items in the Window menu scrolls off of the screen

New in EditRocket 3.5.6 (Jun 29, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • XML Validator: Errors are now clickable and take user directly to error location in file
  • XML Validator: Allow users to specify a schema file or URL for validation
  • XML Validator: Allow users to validate editor contents or a file
  • XML Validator: Auto populate schema location based if referenced in XML file
  • Changes:
  • Mac Launcher: EditRocket now launches in 64-bit mode by default if system is a 64-bit system
  • Find / Replace Tool: Added clear buttons to the find and replace fields
  • Find / Replace Tool: If doing a replace all in selected lines, after the replace is complete, the lines remain highlighted
  • Find / Replace Tool: If multiple lines are selected, the default scope is set to Selected Lines instead of All Lines
  • Java Compiler: Output path is now selectable and remembers output paths for previous compilations

New in EditRocket 3.5.5 (Jun 9, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added AJAX inserts to HTML inserts tool
  • Added AJAX example template
  • Updated Windows and Linux JREs
  • Bugs:
  • File System Browser context menu too large for small resolution screens

New in EditRocket 3.5.4 (May 18, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Auto completion enhancements
  • Changes:
  • Added himem files for launching EditRocket with high memory settings
  • Added recognition for additional pl/sql file extensions
  • .cgi files now default to perl syntax
  • Launching improvements
  • Bugs:
  • Blurry icon problem on Windows 7
  • Zip utility display problems on low resolution displays

New in EditRocket 3.5.3 (Apr 15, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added auto detection for UTF 8 and UTF 16 files
  • Added progress bar and ability to cancel Find in Files and Find / Replace in Files tools
  • Added methods and anonymous functions to the JavaScript function / method navigator
  • Clicking on a line number highlights the entire line
  • Added ability to change the editor caret color
  • Enabled support of $ and ^ regular expression symbols for the Find and Find / Replace tools
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Python syntax highlighting errors with certain text
  • When syntax highlighting is off, keywords are always showing as black, even when custom colors are set

New in EditRocket 3.5.2 (Feb 19, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Right-click on a line number in the editor now adds or removes a bookmark
  • Added smart comment (control or comment /)
  • Add comment menu to the right-click menu on editor
  • Add Undo Chunk to right-click menu on editor
  • Add bookmarks menu to the right-click menu on editor
  • Print using browser enhancements for better translation of font size, bolds, and italics
  • Added Run on Local Web Server options to the PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby tools menus
  • Added Java util for wrap selection in If
  • Added Java util for wrap selection in Else
  • Added support article links to the help menu
  • Added how to guides to the Help menu
  • Changes:
  • File, Edit, and Inserts menu now have better support for lower resolutions
  • View Open Editors option now makes sure it is visible on screen if resolutions were changed
  • Find / Replace window now remembers last position
  • Validate the execute program processes to make sure the program actually exists
  • Change scroll buffer value so that auto window scrolling does not start until cursor is closer to end of the window
  • Added the Save As button to the default toolbar configuration
  • Uncomment option now takes into account all selected lines when uncommenting line comments
  • All Text menu tools now perform their functions on selected text only if there is text selected
  • Better handling of line break conversions when transferring files from Mac to Windows and vice-versa
  • Better adherence to default operating system line break formatting rules
  • Made the CSS and HTML validator results windows resizable
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Right-click on File System Browser text field not showing popup menu on Mac
  • Shift down not highlighting line when the line is the last line in the editor
  • Word Count character count option not factoring in multi-character line breaks for windows
  • Editor status bar selected text length not factoring in multi-character line breaks for windows

New in EditRocket 3.5.1 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Added Goto Directory menu to right-click menu of file system browser path location field
  • Added copy option to right-click menu of file system browser path location field
  • Added paste option to right-click menu of file system browser path location field
  • Added Code - Utils - HTML - HTML Entity Selector option
  • Added auto complete for HTML entities when typing ampersand
  • Added more emacs key bindings for Mac (control k, control d, and control y)
  • Added support for multiple COBOL keyword files for syntax highlighting

New in EditRocket 3.4.7 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • This version includes bugfixes for minor display issues.

New in EditRocket 3.4.4 (Jun 30, 2009)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added XML Tree View tool for viewing XML documents in a tree structure
  • Changes:
  • Upgraded Windows JRE to 1.6.0_14
  • Upgraded Linux JRE to 1.6.0_14

New in EditRocket 3.4.3 (Jun 3, 2009)

  • Enhancements:
  • Sped up load time
  • Added Search -> Bookmark Selector tool
  • Bookmarks are more noticeable in the editor
  • Bookmark positions are now saved by default when exiting
  • Added a selected character count value to the status bar when text is selected
  • Append text to lines and Prepend text to lines tools now keep modified text selected after the append or prepend
  • Added Select All and Select All Files Only options to the file system browser
  • Added uncomment option
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Certain keyboard shortcuts do not work when there are no open editor tabs

New in EditRocket 3.3.1 (Jan 14, 2009)

  • Minor bug fixes for dealing with empty files and replacing empty text.