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 v5.1.3

Enhancements

• Increased support for files over 4 gigabytes in size. Most Hex Workshop operations now work correctly. Bookmarks are still limited to a 32 bit address space.
• Export/Save as C Source and Java Source preferences now support padding or truncations of files or user selections that are uneven multiples of the export data type.
• Structure Viewer now includes byteflip16, byteflip32, byteflip64, and addrof functions. Additionally, __parent__, and __this__ keywords were added to allow references to parent and structure offsets.

Bug Fixes

• Hex Workshop now displays unicode (UTF-16) properly in the text column of the editor.
• Hex Workshop now starts properly under Windows 2000
• Hex Workshop can now open files with Unicode characters in the file name or path.
• Bookmark foreground/background colors are now saved across application restarts.

Hex Workshop v5.1.1

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.