Upgrade Notes
All users who purchased Hex Workshop v5 or an upgrade to v5, can use thier existing unlocking key to activate this versions. All other users must purchase an upgrade.
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Hex Workshop v5.1.0
Enhancements
The Hex Workshop user interface includes updated icons and toolbars
along with a new offset column header to highlight the current
caret and offset positions.
The Structure Viewer panel now simultaneously displays and allows
the editing of interpreted values in both decimal and hexadecimal.
The bookmark, compare, checksum, and find panels were also updated
to include both decimal and hexadecimal columns where possible.
The Structure Viewer file format now supports additional data
accessors and more support for conditional data formats.
- sizeof() returns the size of a variable in bytes
- ubyteAt(), ushortAt(), and ulongAt() returns the 8, 16, or 32
bit value at the specified file offset or variable value.
- switch() allows for conditional structures based on the contents
of a variable.
F7 and Shift+F7 keyboard accelerators jump to the next/previous
Bookmark.
Users can now copy and paste binary data between multiple instances
of Hex Workshop.
Users can now specify whether documents are titled horizontally or
vertically during file comparisons.
A 64 bit shell extension was added to enable the Right-Click "Hex
Edit using Hex Workshop" option under 64 bit operating systems.
The Hex Workshop license agreement was relaxed to allow either a
single user on multiple PCs or multiple users on a single PC.
Previously, the Hex Workshop license restricted use to a single
user on a single PC.
Hex Workshop now defaults to displaying hex data grouped by 8 bit
bytes (instead of by 16 bit word) and enabled automatical column
sizing.
Bug Fixes
Users can now re-open structure definitions. Previously, Hex
Workshop failed to re-open a structure definition if it was
previously opened.
Hex Workshop no longer attempts to auto-load structure
definitions with parsing errors
Restore Sectors failed to write sectors to the specified
disk/drive and instead re-read the sectors.
Structures now retain thier expanded/collapsed state when
users reposition floating structures or collapse and expand
a parent structure/element.
Hex Workshop v5.1 falls back to the 4.x sector editing logic
if unabled to open disks/drives using logic adapted for
Vista UAC privilege escalation.
Hex Workshop v5.0.2
Enhancements
Auto-loading bookmarks: Users can now set file extensions for bookmark collections. Hex Workshop will automatically load bookmarks whenever a file extension matches the association.
Easier data insertion: The Data Inspector and in-place bookmark and structure value editors, and find dialog now accepts data with commas and non-decimal values.
Users can now select an oli and even hex background colors.
The Compare Results Window now includes refresh and clear buttons.
The Bookmark Results and Find Results windows now include goto and select data toolbar buttons.
Double clicking on the INS/OVR indicator in Hex Workshop's status pane now toggles Insert/Overwrite mode
Double clicking on offset, value, or size in the status pane now places the value on the clipboard.
The start and max sector is now displayed in either decimal or hex depending on offset mode.
The compare tool now uses less memory during the compare operations.
Structure Viewer now supports #pragma lockAt and #pragma floatAt. This pragmas allow the user to specify the default offset and structure type.
Alied time64_t data type to Data Inspector, structure viewer, and bookmarks.
Bug Fixes
The Character Distribution's percent column was calculated incorrectly when operating on a selection.
Hex Workshop crashed after opening some bookmark files.
Hex Workshop crashed when manipulating data over 25M.
A number of GUI refresh issues were resolved.
Cancel was disable for find operations
It was not possible to disable the right-click context menu when running under Vista or a system with limited access to the registry.
Enabled tooltips for the Checksum, Find Results, and Compare result windows.
Hex Workshop installer failed to remove registry keys during uninstall.
Unlocking Hex Workshop (from About Dialog) forced Hex Workshop into an application compability mode under Vista or failed to launch the registration unlocking dialog.
