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Character Distributions

Users can view character distributions of their documents to view both distribution of characters within the file or selection and concentration or grouping of individual characters within the file or selection.

Character distributions can be exported as comma separated values or tabbed text for importing into other applications.

Compare

Hex Workshop features an integrated binary comparison utility that allows users to view and walk through difference between files or blocks of the same file.

Users can adjust comparison parameters including how many bytes must match to be considered a compare and how far to search for an insertion or deletion before assuming a replacement.

Preferences

You can customize your editing environment by setting foreground and background colors, fonts, character filters, and select an alternative color to visual display modified bytes. Users can set the number of bytes displayed per row, how your data is grouped and offset lengths in the layout preference tab.

Structure Viewer

The Structure Viewer allows you to view and edit data in the most convenient and intuitive way. This helps turn the art of hex editing into a simple straightforward task. Structures are defined in a text file and closely resemble the C/C++-style struct definition. Many atomic data types are supported along with the ability to nest structures.

Bookmarks

The Bookmarks Feature helps you pick apart and label a data file for a single use or to share with friends and co-workers. When defining a bookmark, you can set the bookmark's data type and then edit the bookmark's data directly in the bookmark viewer. You can even use a simple macro language when defining bookmark addresses and lengths. This allows for powerful smart bookmarks that are portable across like files.

Color Mapping

The Color Mapping Feature helps you visually find patterns, add visual cues, and de-emphasize uninteresting data. Users can set the foreground and background colors and a colorized border rectangle used to display data for any hexadecimal string.

When users hover their mouse over a highlight area, a tooltip window pops up and describes the color annotation. Users can enable and disable the tooltip annotations by pressing Ctrl+E.

Copy Sectors

Copy Sectors Feature allows you to copy sectors between different drives and drive partitions. This feature is incredible useful when attempting salvage data from corrupt disk drives, manually rebuilding drives and partitions, and cloning drives.

Find

Find Dialog
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The Find dialog helps you to search for Hex, ASCII, Unicode, bitmasks, and decimal values: bytes, shorts, longs, quads, floats, and doubles.

You can search for decimal values in either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering and search for text in either ASCII or Unicode forms with the option to match or ignore case.

Users can also search instance by instance or have Hex Workshop find all instances at once.

Base Converter

Base Converter

The Base Converter converts from hex to decimal and decimal to hex (while displaying binary). For a conversion the user can specify byte order (Intel, Motorola, or Raw Hex) and Data Type (byte, unsigned byte, short, unsigned short, long, unsigned long, float, or double).

The Base Converter also includes an Always on Top (Ctrl+A) option accessible from the system menu.

Hex Calculator

Hex Calculator

The Hex Calculator operates in two modes; arithmetic mode and bit manipulation mode. The arithmetic mode supports addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*), and division (/) and the bit manipulation mode supports logical or (|), logical and (&), exclusive or (^), negation (~), left shift (<<), and right shift (>>).

Both modes operate on hex or decimal unsigned long values and do not allow negative numbers or fractions. The Hex Calculator also includes an Always on Top (Ctrl+A) option accessible from the system menu.