To edit color maps, select the "Tools" menu, then "Color Mapping", and then "Editing Mappings" from the sub menu. This will launch Microsoft Window's Notepad editor to modify an ASCII text file containing your color maps.

If you have defined color maps, the text file will contain them, along with the following additional information.

Format

 "<hex_sequence>"=FOREGROUND_RGB [, BACKGROUND_RGB]

<hex_sequence>

The hex sequence must be a valid quoted hex string and can represent between 1 to 32 bytes of data.

FOREGROUND_RGB

Identifies the desired ground color for a particular hex sequence.

BACKGROUND_RGB

Identifies the desired background color for a particular hex sequence. This is optional and if not present, Hex Workshop will use the default background color.

RGB Format

RGB(<red>, <green>, <blue>)

The <red>, <green>, and <blue> tags define the Red, Green, and Blue color components for the foreground or background color. All three values are required and must be specified in decimal (not hexadecimal).

Examples

Example 1, to display all instances of 'FFFF' in green:

"FFFF"=RGB(0, 255, 0)

Example 2, to display all instances of 'DDDD' in black on yellow:

"DDDD"=RGB(0, 0, 0), RGB(255, 255, 0)

Comments

You may use a pound symbol ('#') to indicate a comment, however, comments are lost when modifying a color mappings within Hex Workshop. The order of the color mapping definitions may also be modified when saving.

Other tags

!author="<author_name>"

 Identifies the author of the color map.
 

!description="<color_map_description>"

 Describes the intended purpose of the color map.