Search Text in Files Changelog

What's new in Search Text in Files 4.2

Jan 15, 2024
  • Improved PDF error handling
  • Added “Show Errors” option into “PDF Processing” menu
  • “Show Found Lines” is disabled when “Search Text” is empty
  • Improved speed
  • Fixed tab key problem

New in Search Text in Files 4.1 (Dec 5, 2023)

  • Supported PDFium
  • Improved PDF handling
  • Improved UI

New in Search Text in Files 4.0 (Nov 25, 2023)

  • Added “Show Found Lines”
  • Allowed multiple file masks separated by semicolon
  • Improved UI

New in Search Text in Files 3.7 (Nov 16, 2023)

  • Fixed some threading related bugs

New in Search Text in Files 3.6 (Nov 9, 2023)

  • Fixed “number of items” bug

New in Search Text in Files 3.5 (Aug 18, 2023)

  • Added “Hide File Extension” option
  • CSV export includes header titles
  • Added “Export to Excel”
  • Improved UI

New in Search Text in Files 3.4 (Nov 12, 2022)

  • Supported long path filenames
  • Improved “Rename File” window

New in Search Text in Files 3.3 (Sep 27, 2022)

  • StatusBar displays number of found files
  • Changed “Find Text” to “Search Text”
  • Added “List files where Search Text is missing” option
  • New icon

New in Search Text in Files 3.2 (Aug 6, 2022)

  • Improved thread and GUI relationship
  • INI file is now UTF-8 encoded

New in Search Text in Files 3.1 (Jul 14, 2022)

  • Implemented virtual listview that can display up to 100,000,000 lines
  • Updated Xpdf
  • Xpdf can only be activated if operating system is Windows 7 or later
  • Fixed crash problem for some PDF files
  • Fixed thread related GUI glitch
  • Implemented loading icon
  • Improved UI

New in Search Text in Files 3.0 (May 25, 2022)

  • Added “Find” menu item into “Select” menu

New in Search Text in Files 2.9 (Apr 26, 2022)

  • Remembers last directory, filename filter, find text and ignore text
  • Fixed ignore text bug

New in Search Text in Files 2.8 (Feb 22, 2022)

  • Remembers form position
  • Remembers column widths
  • Remembers checkbox values
  • Improved “Options” menu
  • Fixed “Ignore Text” panel position bug

New in Search Text in Files 2.7 (Jan 2, 2022)

  • “Show Icons” displays images using 32-bit color depth
  • Added “Select” menu
  • Added “Send to Recycle Bin” menu item

New in Search Text in Files 2.6 (Dec 13, 2021)

  • Improved error handling

New in Search Text in Files 2.5 (Nov 6, 2021)

  • Added support for searching PDF files for both single-line and multi-line text
  • Fixed freeze problem when multi-line text search is performed on files that are already-in-use by other processes

New in Search Text in Files 2.4 (Oct 14, 2021)

  • Added “Ignore Text” option

New in Search Text in Files 2.3 (Oct 12, 2021)

  • Added “Rename (F2)“ menu item

New in Search Text in Files 2.2 (Aug 26, 2021)

  • Supported wildcards for “Filename Filter”
  • Implemented .stif filetype association as “Operation File”
  • Implemented splitter in order to enlarge “Search Text” lines
  • Improved UI

New in Search Text in Files 2.1 (Apr 26, 2021)

  • “Drag and drop” accepts file by extracting its directory

New in Search Text in Files 2.0 (Apr 22, 2021)

  • Supported multi-line search text
  • Improved search speed
  • Improved CSV cell export
  • Double-click opens file with default associated application

New in Search Text in Files 1.8 (Jan 3, 2021)

  • Fixed integer column sorting problem.

New in Search Text in Files 1.7 (Nov 19, 2020)

  • Fixed “select directory” bug occurring in Windows XP

New in Search Text in Files 1.6 (Nov 11, 2020)

  • Displays elapsed time. Added "Case-Sensitive" checkbox for "Filename Filter".
  • Filesize is displayed in bytes for easier sorting.
  • Improved UI.

New in Search Text in Files 1.5 (Sep 13, 2020)

  • Supported drag and drop
  • Implemented high-DPI icons
  • Improved UI

New in Search Text in Files 1.4 (Sep 2, 2020)

  • Added “Case-Sensitive” checkbox
  • Removed ASCII based text-file check in order to support international characters
  • Supported portable deployment

New in Search Text in Files 1.3 (Feb 23, 2020)

  • Lists all files if no search string is entered
  • Added "Copy Filenames" menu items.

New in Search Text in Files 1.2 (Apr 16, 2019)

  • "Open with Notepad" and "Open with default application" are added into popupmenu

New in Search Text in Files 1.1 (Dec 27, 2018)

  • Fixed auto select list item bug when mouse is over
  • Fixed file in use bug

New in Search Text in Files 1.0 (Dec 19, 2018)

  • First public release