HxD - schneller Hexeditor, Disk-Editor und RAM-Editor

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Die Version 2.5 ist jetzt verfügbar. Offiziell steht sie noch nicht auf meiner Seite, weil ich noch auf einige Übersetzungen warte.

Aber hier schon mal der Changelog:

Code:

Version 2.5.0.0
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  * Hex editor: implement horizontal mouse wheel scrolling (including handling Logitech driver bug)

  * Data inspector:
    • New: added LEB128/ULEB128 types (variable width integer types used in WASM and dwarf debug information)
    • New: added (U)Int24
    • New: introduce readonly type converters (to allow uniform error messages when attempting to change values, also for converter plugins)
    • Enhancement: better error handling so that typical errors are caught and a more specific error message is given
      - error message for plugin DLLs of wrong machine type (x86-32 vs. x86-64)
  
  * Exporters:
    • New: skip undefined or unreadable sections, such that Intel Hex and S-Record files can be created that have gaps
    • New: source code exporter option to set the maximum text column or bytes per lines (= array elements per line)
    • New: SRecord and IntelHex exporters can now have maximum of 250 and 255 bytes per line, respectively
      - therefore there is also a new default block size/bytes per line setting for each of the exporters, which have a more common size of 32 (for both)
      - allows user to select very large block sizes, yet default to a commonly used size

  * Importers:
     • New: Intel Hex and S-Record support undefined regions of arbitrary size, by creating undefined foldable regions, instead of creating zero filled blocks for them
     • Enhancement: rewrite logic to allow for data records that are out of order (addresses aren't strictly increasing), or overlapping, even when there are gaps of undefined data; previously this could lead to errors, or would only function without undefined data gaps
     • Enhancement: Intel Hex and S-Record importers ignore leading and trailing whitespace in a line
  
  * Checksums / digests:
    • New: custom checksum
      - can generate a checksum, with settable bitwidth for the checksum result, the checksum addends, and the endianness
        - useful for various exotic formats, such as ROM files

  * Search window:
    • use same code as datainspector to convert from string to integer
    • improved the naming of floating point and integer types (closer to data inspector)

    • Searches for both signed and unsigned integers, choosing the right type depending on which fits best (negative numbers => negative type, positive numbers => unsigned type; this is ok, because the positive numbers in the signed type have the same encoding as in the unsigned type; this is a feature of two's complement encoding of integers)

  * Tool windows
    • New: menu items and shortcuts to activate and cycle through tool windows
      - activates (and shows when hidden) either of: data inspector, checksums, or search results
      - implements MRU logic for activation (like Alt+Tab in Windows)
      - can be canceled (and originally activated tool window will be restored)
      - can handle dockable panels, pagecontrols, and childs of those to handle and keep track of activation
      - properly handles switching between back and forward cycling, by switching from Alt+F7 to Alt+Shift+F7, and interrupting cycling when pressing another shortcut
      - extended shortcut handling of VCL/Delphi to handle repeated uses of two shortcuts as part of a shortcut sequence, to properly implement MRU handling, and canceling sequencing (which restores the originally activated tool window), or committing the last chosen tool window, as the activated one
    
      - Global shortcut key Esc to focus editor window

  * PasteFromClipboard:
    • do not delete then insert data in pmOverwrite mode, instead, only overwrite
    • also ensure selection/caret is restored, and therefore always begin a group if selection is available

  * Extensive work to support undefined sections in hex editor that can be deleted, or overwritten, all with undo capability; concerned a lot of supporting internal data structures/algorithms
    • allows for support in importing and exporting files with gaps (=undefined sections)
      - allows for round-trip handling of Intel Hex or S-Record files
    
  * Settings:
    • Data type converters only store their friendly type names in the settings/INI file, when the user changes them
      - this allows for updating those names from version to version, and having them appear automatically without resetting the data inspector in the options
        - also useful for translating HxD, which read the names from the settings when not resetting them, making it appear the translation is not complete
      
  * Fix: entering positive numbers for (U)Int64 results in an out of range error message
  * Fix: Search window: "any" bitwidth does not accept positive integers >= 2^63 (since it was limited to signed numbers only, now supports unsigned ones, too)
  * Fix: HxD would sometimes not detect it was installed (and not in portable mode), because of a case sensitive path comparison
  * Fix: access violation when deleting sections (sections were fixed before, so this bug never triggered)
  * Fix: custom checksum computation uses wrong step size to advance in the byte stream it processes; it would advance in steps of the final checksum's bitwidths, instead of the addend's bitwidth
  * Fix: when overwriting one nibble (key press in hex column) in unaccessible data, set the other nibble to 0 automatically
  * Fix: dockable panels could change fonts in docked and undocked/floating modes
  * Fix: several type and pointer shorting issues, due to types not compatible with x64; they would cause hard to track bugs in the x64 version of HxD under certain versions/configurations of Win 10 (ensuring everything is allocated in memory above 4GiB, during testing, allowed to track them down)
    • issues were in some own code, some third party code, and some Delphi RTL code (TRttiContext, TValue.Make)

  * Various other small enhancements and minor fixes

Und der Download:
Deutsch portable (ohne Setup momentan):
https://mh-nexus.de/downloads/HxD25Deu.zip
Englisch portable (ohne Setup momentan):
https://mh-nexus.de/downloads/HxD25Enu.zip