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<pre>Hex Workshop v6.0.0 - December 2009
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ENHANCEMENTS
General Editing:
- Enhanced character set/locale support. Hex Workshop is now a
native Unicode application as opposed to a MBCS application
allowing users to open and edit files with Unicode names.
- Paste ASCII/Unicode into the Text Area of the editor.
- Status bar now includes the mouse cursor position, editor caret
position, and the file size/selection length.
- Font Script is now settable from Font Selection (Preferences) and
allows users to select different character sets for the Text area.
- Users can now select the Character Filter from the Hex Workshop
Toolbar.
- More powerful and customizable color marking and selection. Users
can now define separate foreground, background, and border
rectangles for hex and text display of modified bytes and other
editor highlighting.
- Added the ability to suppress the undo overrun warning; default
value of the undo buffer was increased to 256K.
- Added complete control of working directories for opening, saving,
importing, exporting, and comparing files. Users can now change
the location of bookmarks, character maps, color maps, structures,
and temporary files.
- Preferences are now organized in a Tree format as opposed to Tabs.
- New Quick Goto box in the toolbar allows for jumping to absolute
offsets and jumping to relative offsets without opening any
dialogs. The Quick Goto box also retains the last 16 most
recently used goto/jump operations.
- Added tooltips to editor area for dividers.
Data Inspector:
- Editing is now invoked by a single click.
- Data inspector on the right edge of the application can be pinned
to maximize editor viewing.
- Data Inspector elements are now grayed when not applicable.
- When selecting or editing from the Data Inspector, the data is now
highlighted in the editor.
Structure Viewer:
- Editing is now invoked by a single click.
- Structure Validation status is displayed in the Add Structure
Dialog prior to adding a new Locked structure
- Data type "wchar" was added to display and edit Unicode strings or
wide characters.
- Quicker structure definition parsing in the structure viewer.
- Color highlighting now marks selected structures, unselected
structures, and structure data members within the editor.
- Behavior options added to structure element selection, including:
setting the caret position in the editor, scrolling the structure
data into view, and selecting the data within the editor.
- Users can now copy the structure view to the Windows clipboard as
text.
- Buttons added for jumping to the start and end of the structure
data and selecting the structure data within the editor.
- Structures are automatically selected when added.
- User can now show/hide columns using the right-click context menu.
- The structure viewer can now be pinned to a Hex Workshop edge to
maximize editor viewing.
- Enumerations now support both signed and unsigned enumeration
values using either:
#pragma enumsign("signed")
#pragma enumsign("unsigned")
Color Maps:
- Added ability to set independent foreground, background, and
border rectangle colors for both the hex and text areas within the
editor.
- Character maps can now include comments that are displayed when
the user hovers the mouse cursor over highlighted data.
- Added ability to suppress the unsaved color maps warning when
closing a file.
Bookmarks:
- Editing is now invoked by a single click.
- Behavior options added to bookmark selection, including: setting
the caret position in the editor, scrolling the structure data
into view, and selecting the data within the editor.
- Added color highlighting to mark selected and unselected bookmarks
within the editor.
- Added ability to suppress the unsaved bookmarks warning when
closing a file.
- Added preferences for loading bookmarks automatically by file
extension.
- Bookmarks are automatically selected when added.
- User can now show/hide columns using the right-click context menu.
- Bookmarks are now sorted by offset.
- Bookmark files can now be opened from the command line with the
new /BOOKMARKS command line argument.
Character Distributions:
- Histogram graph is now included to show the character
distribution.
- Character Distribution feature shows the user where a character is
clustered within a file.
- Updated Character Distribution List includes a primary and
secondary sort.
Compare:
- Behavior options added to compare result selection, including:
setting the caret position in the editor, scrolling the structure
data into view, and selecting the data within the editor.
- Compare dialog can now be defaulted with the last compared files
or files opened in the editor through Preferences.
- First difference is now automatically selected in Compare Result
Window.
- Added color highlighting to marked selected compare item within
the editor.
- Users can now set the compare block length via Advanced Compare
Options.
- Compare Dialog now includes a most recently compared drop-down box
with the last 16 comparisons.
- MRU recalls source and target file, offsets, length, match bytes,
and resync window size.
- User can now show/hide columns using the right-click context menu
Find:
- Behavior options added to find result selection, including:
setting the caret position in the editor, scrolling the structure
data into view, and selecting the data within the editor.
- Find All highlighting allows the user to select custom hex and
text foreground, background, and border rectangle colors when
finding all instances for a search string.
- Find Next Selection and Find Previous Selection added to menus.
- Added Find Next and Previous not matching selection; for finding
the end of a repeating block of data.
- First found instance is now automatically selected in Find Results
control.
- User can now show/hide columns using the right-click context menu
Checksums:
- Added ability to generate SHA2 (224, 256, 384, and 512 bit),
RIPEMD (128, 160, 256, and 320 bit), Tiger and Whirlpool hashes.
- Added ability to generate both 16 and 32 bit Custom CRCs during
generation.
- Added ability to display checksums for multiple files without
clearing results.
- Added document, offset, and length columns.
- User can now show/hide columns from the right-click context menu.
- Added ability to remove a single checksum without clearing all.
- Now when a file is closed and Hex Workshop is unable to
re-checksum a file or selection of a file, the results window
displays the results as disabled. Re-opening the file enables
re-checksuming.
BUG FIXES
- Right-clicking in the editor now sets the caret position; unless
right-clicked over a selection.
- Users are now able to disabling the Hex Workshop Context menu
extension.
- Resolved crash when Hex Workshop viewed a document in a large
window with the byte per line set to "Fit to Window".
- Force Group By to 2 bytes when viewing data in Unicode.
- Resolved issue where the edit caret was displayed in the offset
area after a focus change.
- Resolved missing tooltips in the Hex Workshop Toolbars.
- Fixed display bug where the Offset Header was drawn with different
3D border rectangles.
- The Data Inspector, Structure Viewer, and Bookmark Results Window
now abort editing if scrolled during while in-place editing is
active.
- Resolved issue where entering ASCII/Unicode strings of smaller
length resulted in uninitialized data at the end of string in the
Data Inspector, Structure Viewer, and Bookmarks.
- Toolbar Buttons now enable and work correctly for floating
windows.
- Color maps now filter out duplicate hex sequences and character
ranges.
- Compare now works properly with large file (greater then
0xFFFFFFFF).
- Fixed issues in saving, restoring, and copy sectors.
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