------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hex Workshop, the Professional Hex Editor Copyright 1995-2014 BreakPoint Software, Inc. http://www.bpsoft.com http://www.hexworkshop.com Hex Workshop v6.8.0 - September 2014 ------------------------------------ ENHANCEMENTS - An integrated text-based structure editor was added to help users easily create and maintain structure definitions. The structure editor includes syntax coloring, in-line error reporting, and automatic structure library re-loading on save. - Color maps are now editable from within Hex Workshop using an integrated text editor supporting syntax coloring. - The Expression Calculator now supports syntax coloring. BUG FIXES - Resolved crash when copying hex values over 4K to the clipboard. - Improved default font sizing and layouts for high resolution displays. - Table column widths are now persisted across application restart for the Structures, Find Results, Compare Results, Checksum Results, and Bookmarks windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hex Workshop v6.7.3 - October 2012 ---------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS - Users can now expand or collapse all top level root structures from the "Tools\Structure Viewer" menu. - Child structures can be fully expanded or collapsed from either the "Tools\Structure Viewer" menu or the right-click structure viewer context menu. - The right-click document context menu's relative and absolute jump to offset functionality now supports 64-bit values. - The Fill bytes option is now enabled when editing disks and drives. BUG FIXES - Hex Workshop occasionally failed to insert data to a new or zero byte file. - Unnecessary application startup delays were removed when starting without a network connection. - Users may now copy text from the Results' Output Window. - Users may now copy and paste within the toolbar's goto offset and goto sector text controls. - Hex Workshop was unable to write license files in some situations. - User are now forced to overwrite data as opposed to inserting and deleted data when working with fixed length sectors. - S5 records no longer causes Motorola S-Record imports to fail. Hex Workshop v6.7.2 - September 2012 ------------------------------------ ENHANCEMENTS - Users can now define enums inline of a structure definition. - An enum may now be embedded within a bitfield. Some limitations apply, see online help for more information. - Users may now view and edit bitfields in both decimal and hex. Previously, users were limited to decimal. - The Tools menu includes menu options to apply bookmarks and structures to selected Find All Instance find results. - Users can more easily swap the source and target comparison files using a new "Swap" button in the Compare dialog. - The Fonts and Filters preference settings dialog now supports deleting user-created character filters. - One can now defined keyboard shortcuts to regenerate and clear checksums. Resetting keyboard shortcuts may be required to take advantage of these additions. - The version check feature provides more information including the latest available versions both under and out of maintenance. BUG FIXES - Highlighting rectangles are now displayed in the hex area of the editor regardless of "Flip Bytes in Editor" setting when viewing data grouped by a single byte. Highlighting rectangles are not supported when grouping by 2 or more bytes with byte flipping enabled. - The popup Goto dialog now sets the focus to the address/offset control instead of the OK button. - Online help now includes descriptions of the filepos and filelength bookmark variables. - Visual checkmarks used to indicate state (i.e. displayed columns, data inspector data types) are now shown properly. - Users can now modify 32 and 64 bit bitfields in the structure viewer. Previously, only the first byte of the bitfield was applied. - When double clicking on the caret and cursor positions on the Hex Workshop status bar, a binary representation of the address is now placed on the clipboard using the correct byte order. - Hex columns within the structure viewer are consistently displayed and editable using Big Endian byte ordering (1 == 0x0001). - The Data Visualizer did not display properly when opening a file with a fixed length column width (as opposed to Fit To Window). Hex Workshop v6.7.0 - July 2012 ------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS - Hex Workshop now includes better code page support including the ability to view text rendered using code page based character maps, code page aware searching, and the ability to specify the target character set and code page used to render bookmarks and structures. - Structure definitions now support explicit data types for UTF-8, ANSI, and Unicode character sets along with a "codepage" pragma for rendering ANSI characters. - Users may now export to UTF8, ANSI, or Unicode text files. - A new "Copy Address" option was added to the Edit menu, right-click document context menu, and structure viewer right-click context menu. - Structure definitions now support referencing individual bitfield components from conditional expressions. - A new Structure Viewer preferences allows users controls whether added structures are automatically expanded or left collapsed. BUG FIXES - Hex Workshop no longer crashes when passing a relative path via the command line. - Launching online help now displays context senstive help sections when focus is on the Results Windows or Structure Viewer. - The replace dialog now properly displays the hex search strings for quads and uquads. Additionally, the hex search string is now updated when swapping the byte order. - The replace dialog not properly validates data input based on search type. - The structure viewer no longer displays extra leading zeros when displaying lengths. - The Structure Viewer now updates structure content on undo/redo operations and when changing sectors. - Floating structures now remain expanded when swapping between documents. - The user interface renders quicker with many structures Hex Workshop v6.6.1 - August 2011 --------------------------------- BUG FIXES - Resolved Hex Workshop crash when attempting to specify color settings. - Added Ctrl+Shift+G keycuts and menu items for legacy Goto Sector popup dialog. - Keyboard shortcuts shown in context menus are now based on current mappings as opposed to installed defaults. Hex Workshop v6.6.0 - August 2011 --------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS - New wildcard hex searching allows users to search for hex strings such as 0xAB??EF and 0xA?CD. - The Find Results window now supports multiple selections. Users can select multiple findings for removal, highlighting, bulk bookmarking and bulk structure application. - Users can now specify a range when searching a document. Range options include searching: the entire document, a selected region, or a specific offset and range. - Adding structures is now quicker with refined default structure selection. Hex Workshop will automatically select the last used or first found valid structure. - Defining Structures is now easier with support for reloading of structure libraries. - Users can now copy addresses and values from the Find Results and Bookmarks windows. - Bookmark results, structures listings, find results, comparison results, data inspector values and checksum results are now exportable to tabbed text, CSV, HTML, XML or RTF by right clicking on the window and selecting "Export Contents" from the popup context menu. - Character Distributions are now exportable to XML, HTML, and RTF in addition to CSV and tabbed text. BUG FIXES - Resolved issue where users where unable to copy and paste after pressing Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V in the editor without a selection. - Resolved application start up issue when the sector editing feature is not included as part of installation. - Copying using Ctrl+C keyboard shortcuts now work properly for all dockable windows within Hex Workshop. - Character Distribution exports are now encoded using UTF-8 and are no longer truncated. - Hex Workshop no longer faults when closing a document while Find All Instances is executing. - A number of typos were fixed in the application error messages. - Online help now displays properly from the Replace dialog. - A number of memory leaks were identified and resolved. - Default Font was changed from "Courier" to "Courier New". - Hex Workshop now correctly calculates complex math equations according to the order of operations. Previously, Hex Workshop calculated "5-1-1+2" as 7 (5-(1-1)+2) instead of 5. Hex Workshop v6.5.0 - Jan 2011 ------------------------------ ENHANCEMENTS - Hex Workshop is now fully 64-bit compatible. The installer will automatically install either 32-bit or 64-bit application software based on the target operating system. - An Expression Calculator was added to Hex Workshop that allows users to enter C/C++ style complex expressions including logical, bitwise, and arithmetic operations. Users can also read and modify data. - A new Data Visualizer feature allows users to view documents rendered as an image with custom palettes. The Data Visualizer helps users identify patterns within their data. - Users can now add Functions to their Structure Definitions to help parse file formats and perform routine operations (e.g. updating a checksum). Structure Functions include a rich expression framework with variables, conditionals, and iteration. - A "HalfFloat" data type (IEEE 754-2008) was added to the Data Inspector, Structure Viewer, and Bookmarks. HalfFloat is a 16-bit half precision floating point number. - The Structure Viewer now includes a size column, support for structure pointers, nested switch statements, if statements, and a richer and more user friendly structure validation framework. - Users can now view structure validation status from both the Add Structure Dialog and from the structure viewer itself. - The right-click content menus located with the editor now include more icons. - Byte, UByte, Word, UWord, DWord, UDWord, QWord, and UQWord added as built-in types for the structure viewer. - Structure Parsing is much faster than previous versions. - Users can now paste hex strings that did not originate from Hex Workshop into the hex area of the editor without using the Paste Special feature. - The Bookmark address, length, and array count rules now support bitwise &, |, ^, <<, >> operations and include byteflip functions. - Hex Workshop now includes a plug-in API that allows C/C++ developers to extend Hex Workshop's functionality through document manipulation. Developers can modify documents, update caret position and selection, add and remove bookmarks and structures, and calculate checksums. - Users can export their settings and re-import them on another PC or at later time. - Display settings (Display Themes) are now exportable/importable and can easily changed at runtime. BUG FIXES - Improved UTF8 character handled during product Activation. - Right-click "Hex edit using Hex Workshop" context menu selection, no longer crashes when invoked under SpeedCommander - Trailing nulls are stripped when pasting text into the text-area of the hex editing window. - Resolved improper menu enabling and disabling of "Flip Bytes in Editor" menu item. - Hex Workshop expressions now follow the standard C/C++ operator precedence for parenthesis, literals, arithmetic/bitwise/logical operations, comparisons, functions, and assignments. - Keyboard focus is now properly placed after deleting elements from the structure viewer and bookmark list. - Corrected Structure Viewer line numbers reported for warnings and errors located after a multiline /* */ style comment. - Resolved incorrect highlighting of the altered bytes and possible application instability when saving or closing altered documents. - Added better validation for "DATE" data type in Data Inspector. Hex Workshop will now display if outside the expected range. - Find by bitmask now compares the entire user supplied bitmask string instead of the first byte when reporting matches. - The Hex Workshop installer now migrate user settings from previous Hex Workshop v6.0. - Corrected data range for unsigned qword in Hex Workshop help. - Drop-down boxes displayed as part of in-line Structure Viewer and Bookmarks editing is now sized larger than the column width. - Bookmarks now support 64-bit addresses. - Custom CRC-32 calculations now report the high word correctly. - Resolved license/evaluation failures due to errors in character set conversions. - Corrected display artifacts when viewing Flipped bytes. Hex Workshop v6.0.1 - January 2009 ---------------------------------- BUG FIXES - Installed fixes to request reboot after installation and install missing application dependencies. - Fixed crash when displaying character distribution for an empty document. Hex Workshop v6.0.0 - December 2008 ----------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS General Editing: - Enhanced character set/locale support. Hex Workshop is now a native Unicode application as opposed to a MBCS application allowing users to open and edit files with Unicode names. - Paste ASCII/Unicode into the Text Area of the editor. - Status bar now includes the mouse cursor position, editor caret position, and the file size/selection length. - Font Script is now settable from Font Selection (Preferences) and allows users to select different character sets for the Text area. - Users can now select the Character Filter from the Hex Workshop Toolbar. - More powerful and customizable color marking and selection. Users can now define separate foreground, background, and border rectangles for hex and text display of modified bytes and other editor highlighting. - Added the ability to suppress the undo overrun warning; default value of the undo buffer was increased to 256K. - Added complete control of working directories for opening, saving, importing, exporting, and comparing files. Users can now change the location of bookmarks, character maps, color maps, structures, and temporary files. - Preferences are now organized in a Tree format as opposed to Tabs. - New Quick Goto box in the toolbar allows for jumping to absolute offsets and jumping to relative offsets without opening any dialogs. The Quick Goto box also retains the last 16 most recently used goto/jump operations. - Added tooltips to editor area for dividers. Data Inspector: - Editing is now invoked by a single click. - Data inspector on the right edge of the application can be pinned to maximize editor viewing. - Data Inspector elements are now grayed when not applicable. - When selecting or editing from the Data Inspector, the data is now highlighted in the editor. Structure Viewer: - Editing is now invoked by a single click. - Structure Validation status is displayed in the Add Structure Dialog prior to adding a new Locked structure - Data type "wchar" was added to display and edit Unicode strings or wide characters. - Quicker structure definition parsing in the structure viewer. - Color highlighting now marks selected structures, unselected structures, and structure data members within the editor. - Behavior options added to structure element selection, including: setting the caret position in the editor, scrolling the structure data into view, and selecting the data within the editor. - Users can now copy the structure view to the Windows clipboard as text. - Buttons added for jumping to the start and end of the structure data and selecting the structure data within the editor. - Structures are automatically selected when added. - User can now show/hide columns using the right-click context menu. - The structure viewer can now be pinned to a Hex Workshop edge to maximize editor viewing. - Enumerations now support both signed and unsigned enumeration values using either: #pragma enumsign("signed") #pragma enumsign("unsigned") Color Maps: - Added ability to set independent foreground, background, and border rectangle colors for both the hex and text areas within the editor. - Character maps can now include comments that are displayed when the user hovers the mouse cursor over highlighted data. - Added ability to suppress the unsaved color maps warning when closing a file. Bookmarks: - Editing is now invoked by a single click. - Behavior options added to bookmark selection, including: setting the caret position in the editor, scrolling the structure data into view, and selecting the data within the editor. - Added color highlighting to mark selected and unselected bookmarks within the editor. - Added ability to suppress the unsaved bookmarks warning when closing a file. - Added preferences for loading bookmarks automatically by file extension. - Bookmarks are automatically selected when added. - User can now show/hide columns using the right-click context menu. - Bookmarks are now sorted by offset. - Bookmark files can now be opened from the command line with the new /BOOKMARKS command line argument. Character Distributions: - Histogram graph is now included to show the character distribution. - Character Distribution feature shows the user where a character is clustered within a file. - Updated Character Distribution List includes a primary and secondary sort. Compare: - Behavior options added to compare result selection, including: setting the caret position in the editor, scrolling the structure data into view, and selecting the data within the editor. - Compare dialog can now be defaulted with the last compared files or files opened in the editor through Preferences. - First difference is now automatically selected in Compare Result Window. - Added color highlighting to marked selected compare item within the editor. - Users can now set the compare block length via Advanced Compare Options. - Compare Dialog now includes a most recently compared drop-down box with the last 16 comparisons. - MRU recalls source and target file, offsets, length, match bytes, and resync window size. - User can now show/hide columns using the right-click context menu Find: - Behavior options added to find result selection, including: setting the caret position in the editor, scrolling the structure data into view, and selecting the data within the editor. - Find All highlighting allows the user to select custom hex and text foreground, background, and border rectangle colors when finding all instances for a search string. - Find Next Selection and Find Previous Selection added to menus. - Added Find Next and Previous not matching selection; for finding the end of a repeating block of data. - First found instance is now automatically selected in Find Results control. - User can now show/hide columns using the right-click context menu Checksums: - Added ability to generate SHA2 (224, 256, 384, and 512 bit), RIPEMD (128, 160, 256, and 320 bit), Tiger and Whirlpool hashes. - Added ability to generate both 16 and 32 bit Custom CRCs during generation. - Added ability to display checksums for multiple files without clearing results. - Added document, offset, and length columns. - User can now show/hide columns from the right-click context menu. - Added ability to remove a single checksum without clearing all. - Now when a file is closed and Hex Workshop is unable to re-checksum a file or selection of a file, the results window displays the results as disabled. Re-opening the file enables re-checksuming. BUG FIXES - Right-clicking in the editor now sets the caret position; unless right-clicked over a selection. - Users are now able to disabling the Hex Workshop Context menu extension. - Resolved crash when Hex Workshop viewed a document in a large window with the byte per line set to "Fit to Window". - Force Group By to 2 bytes when viewing data in Unicode. - Resolved issue where the edit caret was displayed in the offset area after a focus change. - Resolved missing tooltips in the Hex Workshop Toolbars. - Fixed display bug where the Offset Header was drawn with different 3D border rectangles. - The Data Inspector, Structure Viewer, and Bookmark Results Window now abort editing if scrolled during while in-place editing is active. - Resolved issue where entering ASCII/Unicode strings of smaller length resulted in uninitialized data at the end of string in the Data Inspector, Structure Viewer, and Bookmarks. - Toolbar Buttons now enable and work correctly for floating windows. - Color maps now filter out duplicate hex sequences and character ranges. - Compare now works properly with large file (greater then 0xFFFFFFFF). - Fixed issues in saving, restoring, and copy sectors. Hex Workshop v5.1.4 - September 2008 ------------------------------------ ENHANCEMENTS - Users can now copy structure contents to the windows clipboard by right-click on the structure and selecting "Copy" or pressing Ctrl+C. - A new "/COMPAREWITH" command line option was added to enable launching file comparisons from a command prompt or another application. BUG FIXES - Resolved buffer/file corruption possible when inserting or deleting data within a document. - ColorMaps now display correctly in files over 4 gigabytes. - Resolved a ColorMap file saving issue that resulted in corrupt map files. - Fixed display issue where odd/even hex column backgrounds could be incorrect for altered text, character maps, and color maps. - Switching from Dec to Hex modes in the Goto Dialog when no data was present resulted in a random hex value (as opposed to blank or zero). - Search failed to find unicode strings - Resolved foreground/background color issues when viewing text area under a unicode filter. Hex Workshop v5.1.3 - July 2008 ------------------------------- 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 - June 2008 ------------------------------ 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. - Signed modifier not applied in Structure Viewer (introduced in v5.1.0 and fixed in v5.1.1). - Goto operation did adjust cursor position (introduced in v5.1.0 and fixed in v5.1.1). Hex Workshop v5.02 - January 2008 --------------------------------- 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 odd 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. - Added 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. Hex Workshop v5.0 - October 2007 --------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS - Added Microsoft Vista support. This impacted Sector editing (requires admin privledge escalation), registration, help format and the right-click document context menu. - The Structure Viewer was expanded to support display names, verify statements (sanity checking), document types, and a blob (unexpanded) native type. - The Structure Viewer can now open/apply structures from multiple libraries and parse enumerations with values defined in hex. - A new "/FILELIST" command line argument allows users to load a list of files from a text file. - Added buttons to calculate and clear checksums on the checksum tab of the Results Window - Added buttons to close structure libraries and remove structures on the Structure Viewer. - Added buttons to clear and remove bookmarks on the bookmark tab of the Results Window. - Added menus to the Help menu for Bug Reports and Product Suggestions - Installer and most components are now digitally signed. BUG FIXES - Text spacing was incorrect when using the Windows ANSI character filter. - "DOS Time" rendering in the Data Inspector and bookmarks failed when the hour was greater then 15. - Fixed possible crash when closing a files with float structures applied and expanded. - File properties are now displayed properly for new documents. - Many other stability-related bug fixes Hex Workshop v4.23 - February 2004 ---------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS - The new Find Strings operation can locate all ASCII strings within a document. Users may specify the minimum string length and require that strings end with a null character. - The Structure Viewer's maximum array size was increased from 16K to 64K (#pragma maxarray). BUG FIXES - The "Hex Edit with Hex Workshop" icon displayed on Microsoft Window's right-click context menu was not aligned correctly. - Hex Workshop failed to insert data using the "Insert Fill" command on some large documents. - Hex Workshop crashed if a structure definition spanned past the end of a document. - The hex editor display could have been corrupted when inserting bytes into a document. - The Redo command failed to properly redo inserted data. - The data inspector unnecessarily repainted while scrolling using the scroll bar. Hex Workshop v4.22 - January 2004 --------------------------------- BUG FIXES - Drag and drop was non-functional when running under Windows 9x/ME. - The Hex Workshop help facility failed to launch and/or work correctly if "roboex32.dll" was not present on a user's system. Hex Workshop now installs "roboex32.dll" into the Hex Workshop program directory. - The editor display could fail to repaint/redraw properly after a scrolling through large files or resizing the window many times. This problem was caused by resource leak in Hex Workshop, however, only surfaced under Windows 9x/ME. - Drag and drop was broken under Windows 9x/ME. - Hex Workshop data operations were incorrect when processing 16 bit or larger adds, substracts, multiples, divides, mod, and change signed operations. Additionally, the data operation dialogs now recall the last used settings. - "Hex Edit with Hex Workshop" failed to appear on the right-click context menu of some file types. An icon is now displayed in the Shell's right-click context menus. Hex Workshop v4.21 - January 2004 --------------------------------- BUG FIXES - Hex Workshop help failed to launch if "inetwh32.dll" was not present on a user's system. Hex Workshop now installs "inetwh32.dll" into the Hex Workshop program directory. - The file open dialog failed to open on Windows 9x and NT 4.0. This problem was introduced as a side effect of upgrading from MSVC 6.0 to Microsoft .NET 2003. - Hex Workshop failed to run on Windows 95 with an error message claiming that it needed "oleacc.dll". This problem was introduced as a side effect of upgrading from MSVC 6.0 to Microsoft .NET 2003. Hex Workshop v4.20 - January 2004 --------------------------------- NEW FEATURES - The Structure Viewer now supports 8, 16, 32 and 64 bit bitfields. A bitfield as defined by the C language allows users to modify and manipulate data without manually counting, shifting, or masking bits. - Users can now specify the data type length when exporting data as C source or Java source. 8, 16, 32, and 64 bit data types and byte swapping are also supported. - Hex Workshop can now be used to export data in the Base64 and UUEncoding formats. Copy-As support is also available. - Users can now modify the starting offset and view file offsets in terms of bytes (default), number of words (bytes/2), or dwords (bytes/4). The offset display is controlled by right clicking on the address column of the hex display. - Bookmarks are now easier to use and more useful. The result of selecting or double-clicking a bookmark is different: - Selecting bookmark: Scrolls the bookmark into view without changing the cursor position. - Double-clicking bookmark's address: Moves the cursor position to the bookmark's address. - Double-clicking length: Selects the bookmark data within the editor. - Double-clicking bookmark's description: Allows you to edit the description in place. - Double-clicking bookmark's value: If a data type was supplied, allows you to edit the data in place. - The Results Window has new "Output" tab to aid in development of structure definitions. Debugging information and errors are displayed in the "Output" window whenever a user opens a new structure definition file. - The Structure Viewer's right-click popup menu now contains menu entries for "Copy" and "Edit". - The Export As dialog now contains a button to modify export preferences. This allows users to more easily change their export preferences. - F2 may now be used to begin editing the selected structure viewer value. - Ctrl+C now copies values to the clipboard from the Data Inspector and Structure Viewer. BUG FIXES - Hex Workshop's failure to read all sectors on large disks. - Motorola S-Records were not imported correctly when records overlapped or records were out of order. - Typo in ANSI character map (online help). - Failure of the delete key to remove the selected bookmark. - Removed the left and right scroll buttons from the Data Inspector's and Results Window's tab control. - Defaults file extensions were not applied when changing format types in the Export As dialog. - Redraw problems when repositioning floating structures containing array elements. - "Junk entires" are no longer left after collapsing some structure definitions. - Structure Viewer parsing problems for "typedef enum". - Structure Viewer parsing/evaluation problems for signed and unsigned modifiers. Hex Workshop v4.10 - May 2003 ----------------------------- NEW FEATURES - The Hex Workshop Structure Viewer now supports variable length arrays. This allows users to define the length of an array based one of the structure's own data members - Hex Workshop now handles simple expressions embedded within an array length definition. - Users can now define their own data types using the "typedef" feature. - The Hex Workshop structure facility now supports enumerated types. Enumerated types allow users to create human readable identifiers for unique numeric values. - Hex Workshop Structure Libraries can now reference other structure libraries by using a #include directive. This feature offers users better control and organization of their structure files. - End users can now calculate up to 12 different checksums within Hex Workshop. The latest checksum algorithm allows users to define a 16 bit or 32 bit CRC by supplying the polynomial, initial value, reflective properties, and final XOR value. - When clicking the right mouse button over the offset portion of the hex editing display, a new context menu is displayed with various offset related options: - Switch between hexadecimal and decimal addresses. - Specify a starting offset value. - Modify how Hex Workshop calculates offset addresses in the hex editing display. - Modify the length of digits displayed in document offsets. - Execute the Hex Workshop Goto command. - When importing Intel Hex Code or Motorola S-Records, users can now specify the fill byte used for unspecified data regions. - When working with big Endian binary files, users can now swap the order of bytes display in the editor. BUG FIXES - Prior to v4.10, imported Intel Hex Code documents could be corrupted when records overlapped. This problem has been addressed. - Prior to v4.10, if users clicked on a read-only portion of the structure viewer display instead of an editable element, editing was not initiated upon pressing F2. Now, pressing F2 will invoke the in-placing edit feature for bookmarks, structures, and the data inspector whenever an element has active focus. - When an element in the structure viewer has active focus, pressing the left and right arrow keys will now collapse or expand the structure. Hex Workshop v4.00 - January 2003 -------------------------------- NEW FEATURES - Structure Viewer allows you to view and edit data in a more convenient and intuitive way - "Smart" Bookmarks helps you pick apart and label a data file for one time use or to share. - Color Mapping helps you visually find patterns and de-emphasize uninteresting data. - Custom Character Filters allow you to define your own text character mapping. - Set Floor and Set Ceiling operations allow you to set the min/max value for a range. - Uppercase, Lowercase and Swapcase operations allow you to manipulate ASCII text. - Block shift left and Block shift right operations help shift bit with carry. - Redo command allow you to redo your last undone undo. - Copy Sectors Feature allows you to copy sectors between different drives and drive partitions. - Automatic Version Check helps users to stay on top of latest release of Hex Workshop. - Enhanced Export Capabilities by allow users to set the maximum array size for C or Java export. - Enhanced Resynchronizing Compare by adding color to the Hex Workshop display area. - Enhanced Find All in File adds color to Hex Workshop by display for all found occurrences. BUG FIXES - Inaccurate reporting physical of disk sizes. - Changed GUIID of shell extension to avoid conflict with IE. - Fixed column resizing inconsistencies with the Data Inspector and Results Window controls. - Corrected inaccurate size calculations in the saving and restoring sector dialogs. Hex Workshop v3.11 - July 2000 ------------------------------ NEW FEATURES - Hex Workshop can now open files up to 4 gigabytes in length. - Added "Copy Address", "Copy All" and "Clear" to the Find Result's right-click context menu. BUG FIXES - Exporting blocks of data as Motorola S-Records or Intel Hex Code would occasionally fail. - Hex Workshop was unable to Save data after importing from Motorola S-Records or Intel Hex Code. Hex Workshop v3.10 - May 2000 ----------------------------- NEW FEATURES - The Data Inspector now has a scrollbar and a number of new inspectors: DATE DOS Date DOS Time FILETIME time_t - Paste Special "Interpret as hexadecimal string" option that allows users to paste in hex strings from outside sources. - Export formatting options can be set in preferences. - Import/Export abilities for 16 and 32 Bit Intel Hex Code formats. - Import/Export abilties for S19, S28 and S37 Motorola S-Record formats. - Export and Copy As Java Source abilties added. - Users can now specify the bytes/row for printing in page setup. - Save/Restore range of sectors. - "Find All Instances" find option. - Character Filters have been updated to reverse map ascii data when entered. - Ctrl+F3 and Ctrl+Shift+F3 accelerators to find selected hex or ascii data. - Shift+F5 to goto/jump backwards. - User Tools now support various context sensitive variables: $(FilePath), $(FileDrive), $(FileDir), $(FileName), $(FileExt), $(DosFilePath), $(CurrOffsetDec), $(CurrOffsetHex), $(CurrSelectionDec), and $(CurrSelectionHex). - Compare Results and Checksum Results windows now have a refresh button to recompare or recalculate checksums. - Checksums can be view in 1s and 2s complement. - Compare results can be filtered by insertions, deletions, matches, or replacements. - Users can perform a simple and quick non-resynchronizing compare. BUG FIXES - Unsigned Quads were not display correctly in checksum results and data inspector - Printing/print was crashing where the file path was longer than ~80 characters - Recomparing a file would clear the compare title - Backspace was not deleting selected data in overwrite mode - Gradient title bar looked horrible in Windows 2000. - Fixed "4 Bit Float" and "8 Bit Double" typos in Find Dialog - Fixed crash when finding/replacing on large files. - Paste Special now retains last selected format/options. - Open Drives now retains selection of last opened drive - Fixed various print/print preview problems - Font now displays properly on "Display" Tab of Preferences - Change Sign failed to operate properly in most situations Hex Workshop v3.02 - Dec 1999 ----------------------------- NEW FEATURES - 32 bit and 64 bit Checksums - Added command line options: /READONLY Open resource in read-only mode /GOTO:offset Jump to a specific offset /SELECT:count Select count bytes from offset - Physical Disk Support for Windows 98 BUG FIXES - Customers can now re-register their product by hitting Ctrl+Alt+R from the About Box - Hex Workshop did not run properly without administration privileges on Windows NT - Shell right click context menu failed in some cases (related to spaces in install directory) - Hex Workshop failed to report when files where not found (and created them) - Added "You must restart Hex Workshop to apply changes on this page" to the path preferences page - Fixed a bug where Hex Workshop mistakenly thought a file was zero bytes after failing a write operation - Fixed "invalid temporary file" error caused after failed write operation - Find Criteria drop down list erroneously cleared search string when selection changed - Fixed search bug where search strings would not be found consistently - Physical Drive sizes were reported incorrectly for drives over 2.1 gigs in Windows 98 - Toolbar states were not display correctly when starting Hex Workshop with a command line parameter. Hex Workshop v3.00 - Nov 1999 ----------------------------- NEW FEATURES - Large File Support (up to 2 gigabytes) - FAT32 Sector Editing - Resynchronizing Binary Compare - Greater Interface Customization - Added Data Operations: Byte Flip, NOT, Shift Left, Rotate Left, Shift Right, Rotate Right, XOR, OR, AND, Change Sign, Plus, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, and Modulo - Enhanced Find - 64 Bit Integer (Quad) Support - Character Distributions - Added Insert File, Replace Selection with File, and Save Selection As File - Added Path Preferences - Added Unicode display filter - Added MD2, MD4, MD5, and SHA1 Checksums Hex Workshop v2.54 - Sept 1997 ------------------------------ BUG FIXES - Fixed "Display alter bytes" crash when replacing data Hex Workshop v2.53 - June 1997 ------------------------------ BUG FIXES - Fixed printing problems associated with variable column widths. - Fixed crash when replacing data with shorter data. - Fixed Undo crash (inserting at the end of a document). Hex Workshop v2.52 - Feb 1997 ----------------------------- BUG FIXES - Compare Again was not functioning properly. - Fixed problems in NT sector editing (search speed and sector count). - Fixed crash when deleting bytes at end of file. Hex Workshop v2.50 - Jan 1997 ----------------------------- NEW FEATURES - Installer is now a self extracting archive. - Added Data Watch to display and edit decimal values. - New Preferences - Added user defined bytes/row and Fit to Window. - Added new character filters (DOS and Macintosh). - Redesigned Preferences tabs. - Redesigned Document Properties (offset, insert/overwrite, etc.). - Added Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn Accelerators. - Find Improvements: - ASCII search by Unicode. - Ability to pad replacement ASCII strings with nulls. - Ability to search by decimal value (byte, long, float, etc.). - Added Copy As and Export capabilities (Text, HTML, RTF, and C Source). BUG FIXES - Inserting bytes would occasionally cause crashes - Miscellaneous display problems - Did not handle read only files properly - Did not save checksum dialog states - Canceling a "Save As" caused "highlight altered bytes" option to be reset Hex Workshop v 2.20 - July 1996 ------------------------------- NEW FEATURES - Added Installer. - Creates Hex Workshop Program Group. - Installs the Hex Workshop File Manager Extension. - Installs the Hex Workshop Windows 95 Shell Extension. - Adds Hex Workshop to Microsoft Visual C++ "Tools" Menu. - Added Uninstall capability to 32 bit version to remove product. - New Preferences - Default path to open files from. - Can set to open documents maximized. - Can choose to highlight altered bytes with a different color. - Added new character filters (EBCDIC/ASCII/none). - Added new keycuts for selecting bytes. - Added Command Line options. BUG FIXES - Right Aligned Footer not working properly. - 16-bit Checksum sign extension bug. - Able to handle unlimited size files although performance on very large files is poor. - Preferences were not being saved in some cases. - Base Converter always pasted into one window. Hex Workshop v2.10 - Feb 1996 ----------------------------- NEW FEATURES - Page Setup - Margins, Headers, Footers, Printer Font. - Enhanced Disk Editing - Support more drive types. - Edit in drive or raw disk mode. - Context Menu Extension [Win 95] - Drag and Drop - from shell/explorer [Win 95]. - from File Manager. - File Manager Extension - Allows user to add a "hex edit" menu to file manager. - Checksum - Added 16 bit checksum. - Added one's and two's complement modifiers. - Enable paste into Find/Replace, Goto dialogs. - Added Tool Help Bubbles. - Added Dockable Toolbars (32 bit version). - Combined Hex Calculator and Bit Calculator into one. BUG FIXES - Printing continued for infinite number of pages . - Editing disks with over 255 tracks didn't work. - Sector find wasn't working properly. - Compare failed when file comparing two files with the same file name. - Never performed input range checking for the compare and sector dialogs. - Dialog background colors where not being set correctly in Win 95. - Goto dialog was not always setting the initial focus properly. Hex Workshop v2.01 - Dec 1995 ----------------------------- BUG FIXES - Signed short was not working properly in the 32-bit version. - Launching the calculators failed because of new naming convention. Hex Workshop v2.00 - Oct 1995 ----------------------------- NEW FEATURES - 32 bit version for Windows 95 and NT. - Sector Editor - Supports BIOS floppy and hard disks. - Checksum calculations - Checksum, CRC-16, CRC-16/CCITT, CRC-32 are calculated selection. - Right-Click menus - Cut, Copy, Paste, Goto, Checksum, Insert for Files - Copy, Next Sector, Previous Sector, Goto, Checksum for Disks. - Paste Special Command - Allows you to paste any format on the clipboard into Hex Workshop. - New File Command - Allows you to open a blank file (useful with paste special). - Copy Special Command - Places the selected text on the Windows clipboard in a text format. - Select Block - Allows you to select large amounts of data easily (by block size or ending offset). BUG FIXES - Improved display - Optimized the selection drawing routines. - Fixed crash when trying to open a help component that didn't exist. - Print/Print Preview was calculating the number of lines per page incorrectly. - Could not add (append) to the end of a file. - Find Again failed, when changing the cursor position between finds. - When saving documents, was not clearing undo stack. - Copy/Pasting selection over 32K causes random results. Hex Workshop v1.0 - May 1995 ---------------------------- ORIGINAL VERSION