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Changelog

[0.4.0] - 2025-03-29

Tutorial

There is now a basic tutorial you can find here: https://crumblingstatue.github.io/hexerator-book/0.4.0/tutorial/00-aitd.html

New features

UI changes

  • Add custom right panel to file open dialog
    • Shows information about the highlighted file
    • Allows selecting advanced options
  • Backtrace support for error popups
  • External command window now provides more options for working directory
  • Show information about rows/column positions in more places
  • Home/End now jumps to row begin/end.
    • ctrl+Home/ctrl+End are now used for view begin/end.
  • The selection can now be quickly cleared with a Clear button in the top panel
  • Add a "quick scroll" slider popup to the bottom panel, to quickly navigate huge files.
  • Add Find&Replace for HexString find type
  • Add a bunch of icons to buttons
  • Remove superfluous "Perspectives" menu

Other Improvements

  • Make stream buffer size configurable, use a larger default size
  • Hexerator now retries opening a file as read-only if there was a permission error
  • Hex strings now accept parsing comma separated, or "packed" (unseparated) hex values
  • The command line help on Windows is now functional
  • Increase/decrease byte (ctrl+=/ctrl+-) now works on selections
  • Add Windows CI
  • Bunch of bug fixes and minor UX improvements, as usual

CLI

Add --view flag to select view to focus on startup

0.3.0 - 2024-10-16

UI changes

Hex Editor:

  • Del key zeroes out the byte at cursor

Bookmarks window:

  • Jump-to button in detail view
  • Value edit input in detail view
  • Context menu option to copy a bookmark's offset
  • Add right click menu option to reoffset all bookmarks based on a known offset (read help label)

File diff window:

  • Now takes the value types of bookmarks into account, showing the whole values of bookmarks instead of just raw bytes.
  • Add "Highlight all" button to highlight all differences
  • Add "Open this" and "Diff with..." buttons to speed up diffing subsequent versions of a file

Find dialog:

  • Add help hover popups for the find type dropdown
  • Add "string diff" and "pattern equivalence" find types. See the help popups ;)
  • Add basic replace functionality to Ascii find

X86 assembly dialog:

  • Add ability to jump to offset of decoded instructions

Root context menu:

  • Add "copy selection as utf-8 text"
  • Add "zero fill" (Shortcut: Del)

External command window:

  • Now openable with Ctrl+E
  • Allow closing with Esc key
  • Add "selection only" toggle to only pass selection to external command

Open process window:

  • Add UI to launch a child process in order to view its memory (hexerator doesn't have to be root)
  • The virtual memory map window now makes it more clear that you're no longer looking at the list of processes, but the maps for a process.

Jump dialog:

  • Replace (broken) "relative" option with "absolute"

Preferences window:

  • Make the ui tabbed
  • Small ui improvements

Lua scripting

  • Replaced LuaJIT with Lua 5.4, because LuaJIT is incompatible with panic=abort.
  • Add Lua syntax highlighting in most places
  • Add Lua API help window (Scripting - Lua help)
  • Add a bunch more API items (see Scripting -> Lua help)
  • Allow saving named scripts, and add script manager window to overview them
  • Add Lua console window for quick evaluation and "watching" expressions
  • Scripts can now take arguments (args table, e.g. args.foo)

Plugins

New feature. Allow loading dylib plugins. Documentation to be added. For now, see the hexerator_plugin_api crate inside the repo.

Command line

  • Add --version flag
  • Add --debug flag to start with debug logging enabled and debug window open
  • Add --spawn-command <command>... flag to spawn a child process and open it in process list (hexerator doesn't have to be root)
  • Add --autosave and --autoreload [<interval>] to enable autosave/autoreaload through CLI
  • Add --layout <name> to switch to a layout at startup
  • Add --new <length> option to create a new (zero-filled) buffer

Fixes

  • Loading process memory on windows now correctly sets relative offset
  • When failing to load a file via command line arg, error reason is now properly displayed

Other

  • Analysis -> Zero partition for "zero-partitioning" files that contain large zeroed out sections (like process memory).
  • Add feature to autoreload only visible part (as opposed to whole file)
  • Replace blocking file dialog with nonblocking egui file dialog
  • Update egui to 0.29
  • Experimental support for custom color themes (See Preferences -> Style)
  • Make monochrome and "grayscale" hex text colors customizable
  • No more dynamic dependency on SFML. It's statically linked now.
  • Various bug fixes and minor improvements, too many to list individually

0.2.0 - 2023-01-27

Added

  • Support for common value types in find dialog, in addition to u8
  • About dialog with version info + links
  • Clickable file size label in bottom right corner
  • Functionality to change the length of the data (truncate/extend)
  • Context menus in process open menu to copy addresses/sizes/etc. to clipboard
  • Right click context menu option on a view to remove it from the current layout
  • Layout properties is accessible from right click context menu on the layout
  • Error reporting message dialog if the program panics
  • Each file can set a metafile association to always load that meta when loaded
  • Vsync and fps limit settings in preferences window
  • Bookmark names are displayed when mouse hovers over a bookmarked offset
  • "Open bookmark" context menu option in hex view for existing bookmarks
  • "Save as" action
  • Hex string search in find dialog (de ad be ef)
  • Window title now includes filename of opened file
  • Ability to save/load scripts in lua execute dialog
  • app:bookmark_set_int(name, value) lua method to set integer value of a bookmark
  • app:region_pattern_fill(name, pattern) lua method to fill a region
  • Context menu to copy bookmark names in bookmarks window
  • Make the offsets in the find dialog copiable/pasteable
  • Add x86 disassembly

Changed

  • Update to egui 0.20
  • Open file dialog opens same directory as current file, if available
  • Replace most native message boxes with egui ones
  • Inspect panel shows value at edit cursor if mouse pointer is over a window that covers the hex view.
  • Make path label in top right corner click-to-copy
  • Process name filter in process open dialog is now case-insensitive
  • "Diff with file" file prompt will now open in same directory as current file
  • Don't insert a tab character for text views in edit mode when tab is pressed to switch focus
  • Active selection actions in edit menu are now in a submenu named "Selection"
  • "Copy as hex" is now known as "Copy as hex text"
  • Bookmarks table is now resizable horizontally
  • Bookmarks table is now scrollable vertically
  • Native dialog boxes now have a title, and their text is selectable and copyable!
  • Bookmarks window name filter is now case insensitive
  • Bookmarks window description editor is now monospace
  • Bookmark description is now in a scroll area
  • Bookmarks window "add new at cursor" button selects newly added bookmark automatically
  • Create default metadata for empty documents, allowing creation of binary files from scratch with Hexerator
  • File path label has context menu for various options, left clicking opens the file in default application

Fixed

  • Show error message box instead of panic when failing to allocate textures
  • Prevent fill dialog and Jump dialog from constantly stealing focus when they are open
  • Certain dialog types no longer erroneusly stack on top of themselves if opened multiple times.
  • Lua fill dialog with empty selection now has a close button.
  • Make regions window scroll properly
  • Pattern fill dialog is now closeable
  • "Select all" action now doesn't select more data than is available, even if region is bigger than data.

0.1.0 - 2022-09-16

Initial release.