Preferences

Hex Workshop Preferences Dialog is launched by either selecting "Preferences..." from the "Options" menu or by pressing the Preferences icon on the File Operations Toolbar.  

Preferences are organized under 4 major categories: Display Options, Configuration, Tool Options, and Import/Export followed by sub-categories.

The "Reset All" button resets all preferences to default settings.  The "Help" button displays help for selected preference sub-category.

Settings

Resync Window

This is option is used to limit how far (in bytes) the compare tool will search for an insertion or deletion. A higher number may yield more accurate results, however, will take an exponentially longer time to execute. Lowering the number will speed up the comparison, but may result in more replacements instead of insertions and deletions.

The default value is 2048 bytes.

Match Bytes

This option is used to tell the compare tool how many bytes must be identical before a match is reported.

The default value is 32 bytes.

Default Comparison Dialog with

The Comparison Dialog can be defaulted with either the Last Compared Files or Open Documents.  The default is Last Compared Files.

When displaying result files

When performing a comparison, Hex Workshop can align the files to better compare differences.  Available options are listed below:

When selecting results

Users can define the edit caret position and editor selection when selecting a comparison item from the Compare tab of the Results Window.  Available options are listed below: