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

Memory mapped file support
Allow defining data layouts with Rust struct syntax
- View->Ruler can use struct definitions
Mouse drag selection
- You can finally select regions by dragging the mouse, rather than having to use shift+1/shift+2
Block selection with alt+drag
- You can select non-contiguous sections by holding alt and drawing a rectangle with the mouse

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

Various UX improvements and a few bug fixes since Alpha 2

Alpha version for testing/feedback purposes.

Changelog in progress.

Showcase

Syntax highlighting and API help for Lua scripting:

Using StringDiff search option to find the string MARIO in a non-ascii character set

Video of using the new plugin system to decode strings in Paper Mario:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9PKO8Gvo0

Changelog

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

Patch release for 0.2

[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 stri 8000 ng 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.

Pin rust nightly version to build with, to fix compilation errors with newer rustc versions

Check out the Hexerator book!

This is an initial public release meant to show what Hexerator is about.
It's not polished and it has bugs and missing features.
The metafile version is also not stable yet, so don't get too attached to your metafiles!
If you upgrade, a new Hexerator might not be able to read the old metafile version.

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v0.3.0 - 2024-10-16

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