MarsEdit 4.2.1 is now available for download from the MarsEdit home page and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

After Apple shipped macOS Mojave last week, I got a report from a MarsEdit customer who was trying out all the new bells and whistles. They discovered that the new Continuity Camera feature didn’t work in MarsEdit. Instead of inserting the freshly snapped picture from their phone, it crashed the app!

The problem turns out to be rooted in Apple’s handling of “file promises.” In a nutshell: since MarsEdit has gotten so good at accepting file promises from various apps, it’s also become vulnerable to bugs like this one, where file promise information that will crash the app is placed on the pasteboard.

MarsEdit 4.2.1 works around this crash. Now if you want to take a picture from your phone to add to a blog post, just right-click in the Editor, and select “Take Photo” from the menu item next to your phone’s name:

Here is the complete list of changes in MarsEdit 4.2.1:

• Support Mojave’s new Continuity Camera feature for taking pictures from an iPhone’s camera
• Dark Mode: fix text color in Crash Reporter console log display
• Support “Extended Entry” content in preview template downloader
• Restore support for dragging URLs from Safari into MarsEdit’s editor

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook or Twitter, and of course, writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

FlexTime 1.4 is now available for download from the FlexTime home page and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

I haven’t updated FlexTime much over the past several years, but I wanted to take the opportunity with the release of macOS Mojave to ensure it fits in better for folks who use it and choose to run in Dark Mode:

Here’s the complete list of changes in FlexTime 1.4:

• Supports Dark Mode in macOS Mojave
• Displays usage information when prompting on macOS Mojave to allow scripting iTunes
• Fixes a bug that caused sounds in “Play Sound” parameter menu to be unsorted
• Requires macOS 10.12 or greater

If you enjoy FlexTime, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store. Thanks for your support!

MarsEdit 4.2 is now available for download from the MarsEdit home page and the Mac App Store.

This update marks the completion of Dark Mode support for macOS Mojave, which is slated to be released by Apple this coming Monday.

Supporting Dark Mode throughout MarsEdit turned out to be a lot of work, but it was really fun work. It’s great to see how the app can be adapted to a completely different style of user interface. I hope many of you enjoy it after installing macOS Mojave!

Here’s the complete list of changes for 4.2:

• Support for macOS Mojave 10.14 Dark Mode
• Avoids aggressively reloading the preview window after inserting an image into a post
• Restores ability for MarsEdit to launched as a login item but “hidden” in background
• Fix a bug that could cause post content to be lost during conversion from Rich Text when a more tag is present

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook or Twitter, and of course, writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

MarsEdit 4.1.4 is now available for download from the MarsEdit home page and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

This update includes a good number of fixes as well as more changes to support macOS Mojave’s upcoming Dark Mode. Folks who are running the beta Mojave should find that most aspects of the app are now tuned to draw properly in Dark Mode. One area where I’m still planning to put some more time in is in the “Media Manager” where there are still some white backdrops that need to be adapted.

Here’s the complete list of changes in this update:

• Fix a bug that prevented some preference changes from “sticking”
• Restore support for dragging images from Preview’s thumbnail list to the app
• Preserve <script> elements when editing HTML content that contains them
• Restore scripting support for custom field values on posts
• Fix an issue converting Emoji characters from entities and back
• Fix a crash when using VoiceOver to select Featured Image
• Update default “Quick Posts” markup to use a more correct HTML structure
• Fix preview of Quick Posts template which was not displaying correctly
• More preliminary support for Dark Mode
  • Use different syntax highlighting colors in Dark Mode
  • Fix text color for the Network Log’s content
  • Adapt about box and acknowledgements windows
  • Adapt main window preview area

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook or Twitter, and of course, writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.