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Hex Workshop v6.6

Wildcard Hex Searching

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Hex Workshop now supports wildcard hex searching down to a 4-bit nibble. For example, the search string "FF?D" would match on 0xFF0D, 0xFF1D, 0xFF2D, ..., 0xFFFD. Wildcard searching is supported both in interactive search and Find All Instances.

Searching within Ranges

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.

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Find Results Versatility

The Find Results Window now supports multiple selections. Users can select multiple findings for removal, highlighting, bulk bookmarking, and bulk structure application. Additionally, users can now copy the address or value from the Find Results Window.

Enhanced Export Capabilities

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.

Additionally, character distribution export capabalities were expanded to support XML, HTML, and RTF in addition to CSV and tabbed text.

Bug Fixes

Hex Workshop v6.6 includes the following 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.
  
• 6.6.1: Resolved Hex Workshop crash when attempting to specify color settings.
• 6.6.1: Added Ctrl+Shift+G keycuts and menu items for legacy Goto Sector popup dialog.

6.6.1 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.

Hex Workshop v6.5

Native 32 or 64 bit Software

Hex Workshop is now fully 64-bit compatible. The installer will automatically install either a 32-bit or 64-bit application based on the target operating system.

Expression Calculator

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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.

Data Visualizer

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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. By selecting or creating different color palettes users can quickly identify text sequences within binary data, patterns and repeating data, tables, and even palette-based images. In the left example, green ascii text is easily identified. One can also easily differentiate between UTF-8 and UTF-16.

Structure Viewer Enhancements

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The Hex Workshop structure viewer includes many enhancements:

• 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.
• 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.
• Byte, UByte, Word, UWord, DWord, UDWord, QWord, and UQWord were added as built-in types.
• Structure Parsing is much faster than previous versions.

All Changes

Please review Hex Workshop's version history for a detailed list of all changes.