Preferences

Hex Workshop Preferences Dialog is launched by either selecting "Preferences..." from the "Options" menu or by pressing the Preferences icon on the File Operations Toolbar.  

Preferences are organized under 4 major categories: Display Options, Configuration, Tool Options, and Import/Export followed by sub-categories.

The "Reset All" button resets all preferences to default settings.  The "Help" button displays help for selected preference sub-category.

Settings

When select bookmarks

Users can define the edit caret position and editor selection when selecting a bookmark item.  Available options are listed below:

Scroll Data Into View

Scrolls the bookmark data into view, but does not move or adjust the caret position.

Set Caret Position in Editor

Scrolls the bookmark data into view and moves the caret position to the start of the bookmark.

Select Data In Editor

Scrolls the bookmark data into view and sets the editor selection to match the bookmark data.

 

Prompt to save when closing a file containing unsaved bookmarks

If checked (enabled), Hex Workshop will prompt to save new or modified bookmark collections upon closing a file.  The default is enabled.

Automatically load bookmark collections by file extension

If checked (enabled), Hex Workshop will automatically load and apply bookmarks based on the file extension.  The default is enabled.

Bookmark file extension associations

Users can define a mapping between file extensions and bookmark files by pressing the "+" button to add new entries or the "-" button to remove entries.