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Basic Editing Highly Customizable GUI Find Replace Disk/Drive Sector Editing Goto Printing Bookmarks Structure Viewer Compare

Checksum Generation Data Visualizer Import/Export Data Operations Data Inspector Expression Calc Plug-in API Base Converter Hex Calculator

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 GUI:

• 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 (including wildcards)
  
• 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
  
• Find across entire document, selection, or manually entered range
• Apply bookmarks or structures based on Find Results

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
  
• Replace across entire document, selection, or manually entered range

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 Structure Views, Compare Results, Find Results, Bookmark Views, Checksum Results, and Character Distributions as Tabbed Text, CSV, RTF, XML, and HTML.

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: +,-,*,/,|,&,^,<<,>>, ~