Hextor Changelog

What's new in Hextor 0.14

Nov 8, 2022
  • Changes:
  • High DPI support (more or less)
  • DataStruct: arbitrary scripts in structures (for example, modification of helper variables)
  • DataStruct: #hint and #itemhint directives for custom interpretation of fields
  • DataStruct: User-defined types (typedef)
  • DataStruct: Array size can be defined in bytes instead of element count (#size directive), even for variable-sized elements

New in Hextor 0.13 (Apr 15, 2022)

  • Search and edit alternate NTFS data streams
  • Auto-refresh externally changed file; Lock file from external writes when we have unsaved changes
  • Ability to use arbitrary text encodings (configurable in settings). Editor pane can display only single-byte encodings; search dialog can use any installed encodings
  • "Exclude masks" for Find-in-files
  • In process selection dialog: search by command line, copy command line

New in Hextor 0.12 (Dec 21, 2021)

  • Changes;
  • Dark UI theme (View -> Theme);
  • "Text editor" mode: show text lines instead of fixed-width column. Useful for viewing huge logs, performing find-and-replace in heavy DB dumps and examining text sections inside of binary files;
  • "Media" toolframe: view selected data as image/multimedia based on signature

New in Hextor 0.11 (Sep 6, 2021)

  • Changes:
  • Search & Replace subexpression substitution;
  • DataStruct: Helper (temporary) variables;
  • DataStruct: cur_addr variable holds current absolute address;
  • Simple DataStruct description for PNG files;
  • Show progress in taskbar

New in Hextor 0.10 (Jul 11, 2021)

  • Changes:
  • Advanced file compare with insert/delete detection;
  • Tools for splitting and combining files;
  • DataStruct: "break" and "continue" commands for parsing arrays;
  • "Select process" dialog: show CommandLine of processes

New in Hextor 0.9 (Feb 27, 2021)

  • Not-so-stupid greedy search - take into account presence of following elements;
  • UTF-8 support in value inspector and search;
  • DataStruct: lazy creation of arrays with fixed-size elements;
  • Various fixes and small improvements

New in Hextor 0.8 (Oct 18, 2020)

  • Had to replace some used libraries for that:
  • MSScriptControl replaced with direct use of IActiveScript;
  • MxWebUpdate replaced with own auto-update module;
  • HashLib! replaced with HashLib4Pascal
  • Added list of regions for process memory;
  • Saving without using temp file even if bytes were inserted/deleted;
  • New "Find in files" modes: Find first occurrence in every file and Find files NOT containing pattern

New in Hextor 0.7 (Sep 11, 2020)

  • Extended syntax in search: wildcards, ranges of values
  • New operation: Invert byte order
  • Select data between two selected bookmarks