The Hex Workshop Hex Editor by BreakPoint Software is a complete set of hexadecimal development tools for Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. Hex Workshop integrates advanced binary editing and data interpretation and visualization with the ease and flexibility of a modern word processor.  With the Hex Workshop, you can edit, cut, copy, paste, insert, fill and delete binary data.  You can also work with data in its native structure and data types using our integrated structure viewer and smart bookmarks.  Data editing is quick and easy with our extensive features that allow you to: jump to file or sector location, find or replace data, perform arithmetic, bitwise, and logical operations, binary compare files, generate checksums and digests, view character distributions and export data to RTF or HTML for publishing.

Hex Workshop includes a Sector Editor with disk imaging tools, a Base Converter for converting between hex, decimal and binary data types, a Hex Calculator supporting arithmetic and bitwise operations, an expression calculator supporting variables, conditionals, iteration and arithmetic and bitwise operations, and a data visualizer designed to help you visually identify patterns and interesting data from rendered images.  Also included is our Data Inspector that allows you to quickly edit and view data in decimal, floating point or time and date representations.

The Hex Workshop Hex Editor v6.5 or lower is available at a retail price of $89.95 (with volume and academic discounts and site licenses available).  For more information, visit the Hex Workshop web site at http://www.hexworkshop.com or send e-mail inquiries to sales@bpsoft.com.

Key Features:

• Rich Feature Set

• Highly Customizable User Interface

• Data Interpretation, Visualization and Parsing

• Integrated Binary Comparison

Rich Feature Set

Hex Workshop features a broad and powerful set of features ranging from the ability to color map data sequences to the interpretation of data though our integrated structure viewer and smart bookmarks.  Our many features include: binary data editing, importing and exporting blocks of data, searching for data by hex strings, text, Unicode, bitmasks, or decimal values, viewing character distributions, sector editing, embedded data operations, binary file comparison, and import/export capabilities.

Highly Customizable User Interface

Hex Workshop allows users to customize the look of the main editor window through user definable color settings for the data and backgrounds and also through the ability to define how and what data will be displayed.  Users can adjust the grouping of hex data, the number of bytes display per line, offset lengths, offset bases, etc. Panels can be docked or pinned to maximize your editing workspace.  

Integrated tools allow users to color code and tag data within the editor.  For example, while viewing a structure in Hex Workshop, users are able to color graphically see the data ranges of structure members.  All color coding is user definable.

Data Interpretation, Visualization and Parsing

Four integrated tools are available to help parse and combine data within Hex Workshop.  

1. The Structure Viewer applies C-style structures to data within the editor and allows the user to visually view and edit that data.  

2. Smart Bookmarks allow users to add bookmarks to a file with functions, mathematical operations, and data types.   Users can view and edit both the bookmark and the bookmark’s value.   

3. Color maps allow users to apply color attributes to hex sequences or character ranges to help identify data within a file.  

4. The Data Visualizer allows users to apply color palettes to their data to help identify patterns.

Integrated Binary Comparison

Integrated resynchronizing binary comparisons allow users to compare binary files and review each difference.   Starting offsets, lengths, and compare parameters, and color renderings are all user-definable.

Technical Specifications

Software Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 or later

• Administrative access for installation, registration, and sector editing

Hardware Requirements:

• 1 GHz x86 processor

• 512 MB of system memory

• 20 MB of available disk space

Full Feature Set

Basic Editing

• Cut, Copy, Paste, Insert, Fill and Delete Hex

• ASCII, DOS, EBCDIC, Macintosh, Window, Unicode or custom character set filters

• Multilevel Undo and Redo

• Drag and Drop files onto Hex Workshop for quick editing

• Highlight hex and text sequences using Color Maps

• View modified bytes in user defined colors

• Select by offset/length or Select All

• Paste Special (any format on the clipboard)

• Insert File a file or replace selection with the contexts of a file

• Save a selection as a new file

• Select "Hex Edit" from Windows Right-Click Context Menu to view and edit files

• Context sensitive help

• View character distributions of a document or selection

• Copy document or selection as:  C Source Array, Java Source Array, Hex String, HTML, RTF, Text, Base64 or UUEncoding

• View offsets and lengths in hex or decimal

• Integration with 3rd party applications

• User customizable keyboard shortcut key sequences for common operations

Highly Customizable User Interface

• Hex values can be grouped by 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 bytes

• Specify the bytes per line (1-128) or let Hex Workshop fit to window size

• User-definable font and character mapping

• Specify significant digits for floating point/double presentation

• Enable/Disable warnings and notification messages

• Workbook mode allows ability to switch between open documents quickly

• User-definable colors for the offset area, odd hex columns, even hex column, separators and text area

• Integrated color and border rectangle tagging for integration tools: Structure Viewer, Bookmarks, Data Inspector, Compare Results, Find Results and Color Maps

Find

• Search using Hex Strings

• Search using Text Strings (ASCII, Unicode or either; match or ignore case)

• Search using Bitmasks

• Search using 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit or 64 bit signed/unsigned values (Big Endian, Little Endian or either)

• Search using floating point values (Big Endian, Little Endian or either)

• Search using double precision floating point values (Big Endian, Little Endian or either)

• Find All instances or instance by instance

• Search from top down or bottom up

• Find all strings within a document (ASCII, Uncode or Either)

• Find next or previous matching selection

• Find next  or previous not matching selection

Replace

• Find and replace by Hex Strings, Text, Strings or values

• Pad text strings with nulls if the replacement string is shorter than the original string

• Replace All instances or instance by instance

• Replace from top down or bottom up

Disk/Drive Sector Editing

• Sector edit partitions or physical disks

• Copy sectors between disks and partitions

• Save Sector range to a file

• Restore Sector range from a file

Goto

• Jump to specified address

• Jump to address relative to start of document

• Jump to address relative from end of document

• Jump to selected address

• Jump to current offset + selected address

• Jump to current offset - selected address

• Jump to last goto + selected address

• Jump to last goto - selected address

• Repeat last jump (relative from current offset)

• Jump backwards (relative from current offset)

Printing

• Print and Print Preview

• Header and footer are highly customizable

• Page Setup allows configuration of: font, header, footer, margins and bytes per line

Bookmarks

• View and edit data rendered as natural data type (byte, word, half float, double, string, Unicode string, time_t, time64_t, structure reference, etc.)

• Integrated with Structure Viewer

• Array support (add multiple bookmarks with single definition)

• Calculations supported for address, length, and count (array) definitions:  +, -, *, /, %, &, |, ^, <<, >>

• Functions supported for address, length, and count (array) definitions:  UByteAt(), UShortAt(), ULongAt(), UQuadAt, byteflip16(), byteflip32(), and byteflip64()

• Constants supported for address, length, and count (array) definitions:   last (bookmark), start (first bookmark), arrayindex, filelength

Structure Viewer

• View and edit data in its natural structure and form

• File format resembles C/C++ style structure definition

• Embedded, nested and reference other structures in your definitions

• Many atomic data types supported: char, wchar, byte, ubyte, word, uword, long, ulong, longlong, half float, float, double, OLE Date/Time, DOSTIME, DOSDATE, FILETIME, time_t, and time64_t

• Conditional structure elements (if and switch)

• Big Endian or Little Endian rendering

• Add floating structures that re-renders on caret position changes

• Add locked structures which stick to a document and offset

• Verify expected byte sequences in a document against the structure definition's expected values

• Integrated Functions enable automatic file format parsing and data manipulation

Compare

• Use either a Simple or Resynchronizing binary compare

• Resynchronizing Compare color codes the differences

• Ability to specify Resync Window (how far to look for insert/delete) and match bytes (how many bytes must match) for resynchronizing compares

• Set starting comparison offset independently for source and target files

• Set comparison length independently for source and target files

Checksum Generation

• Checksum either entire document or a selection

• 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit checksums (sum)

• CRC-16

• CRC-16/CCITT

• CRC-32

• Custom CRC-16

• Custom CRC-32

• MD2, MD4, MD5

• SHA1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512

• RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, RIPEMD-256, RIPEMD-320

• Tiger

• Whirlpool

• View checksums and CRCs as 1s or 2s Complement

Data Visualizer

• Includes 3 palettes and the ability to use user-defined palettes (Microsoft .PAL file format)

• Zoom visualizer width and height independently

• Automatic scaling to match editor view

• Displays editor selection

• Allows selection of data within the editor

Import/Export

• Import and Export 8, 16 or 32 bit Intel Hex Code

• Import and Export Motorola S19, S28 or S37 records

• Export as HTML

• Export as RTF

• Export as C source

• Export as Java source

• Export as Text

• Export as a Hex string

• Export as UUEncoding

• Export as Base64

• Export as CSV (character distributions only)

• Export as Tabbed Text (character distributions only)

Data Operations

• Modify your data in-place using embedded operations

• Operations can be applied to a selection or an entire document

• Operations include: set floor value, set ceiling value, lower case, upper case, swap case, byte flip, block shift, ~, <<, >>, ~, |, &, +/-, +, -, *, /, %

Data Inspector

• Interpret data at current caret position and edit that data as a more user-friendly sensible data type

• Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering

• View and edit 8 bit signed/unsigned values

• View and edit 16 bit signed/unsigned values

• View and edit 32 bit signed/unsigned values

• View and edit 64 bit signed/unsigned values

• View and edit half float (16 bit), floats (32 bit) and double precision floats (64 bit)

• View and edit DATE, DOS Date, DOS Time, FILETIME, time_t, and time64_t values

• View and edit binary representations

Expression Calc

• Arithmetic operations: +, -, *, /, %, ()

• Logical operations: ==, !=, ||, &&, <, <=, >, >=

• Bitwise operations: &, |, ^, <<, >>, ~

• Arithmetic functions: min, max, byteflip16, byteflip32, byteflip64

• Document functions: get/set caret position and selection, add structure, get document size, getValueAt, setValueAt, insertValueAt

• Conditional statements: if, switch

• Looping constructs: for, while

• Creation and manipulation of integer variables (signed/unsigned 8, 16, 32, and 64 bit variations)

• Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering

• Option to automatically place results on clipboard

Plug-in API

• C/C++ Plug-in API

• Allow data manipulation of active document

• Create new documents

• Generate checksums and digests

• Create and manipulate smart bookmarks

• Manipulate caret position and selection

• Progress and user-cancel support

• Integration with output window for logging

• Ability to auto-exec plug-ins on document open

Base Converter

• Convert 8 bit, 16 bit, and 32 bit values between hex, decimal and binary

Hex Calculator

• Hex/Decimal calculator supporting: +,-,*,/,|,&,^,<<,>>, ~