Version History

Hex Workshop v5.02 - January 2008
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  ENHANCEMENTS
  - Auto-loading bookmarks: Users can now set file extensions for
    bookmark collections.  Hex Workshop will automatically load
    bookmarks whenever a file extension matches the association.
  - Easier data insertion: The Data Inspector and in-place bookmark
    and structure value editors, and find dialog now accepts data with
    commas and non-decimal values. 
  - Users can now select an odd and even hex background colors.
  - The Compare Results Window now includes refresh and clear buttons.
  - The Bookmark Results and Find Results windows now include goto and
    select data toolbar buttons.
  - Double clicking on the INS/OVR indicator in Hex Workshop's status
    pane now toggles Insert/Overwrite mode
  - Double clicking on offset, value, or size in the status pane now
    places the value on the clipboard.
  - The start and max sector is now displayed in either decimal or
    hex depending on offset mode.
  - The compare tool now uses less memory during the compare
    operations.
  - Structure Viewer now supports #pragma lockAt and #pragma floatAt.
    This pragmas allow the user to specify the default offset and 
    structure type.
  - Added time64_t data type to Data Inspector, structure viewer, and
    bookmarks

  BUG FIXES
  - The Character Distribution's percent column was calculated
    incorrectly when operating on a selection.
  - Hex Workshop crashed after opening some bookmark files.
  - Hex Workshop crashed when manipulating data over 25M.
  - A number of GUI refresh issues were resolved.
  - Cancel was disable for find operations
  - It was not possible to disable the right-click context menu when
    running under Vista or a system with limited access to the
    registry. 
  - Enabled tooltips for the Checksum, Find Results, and Compare
    result windows.
  - Hex Workshop installer failed to remove registry keys during
    uninstall.
  - Unlocking Hex Workshop (from About Dialog) forced Hex Workshop
    into an application compability mode under Vista or failed to
    launch the registration unlocking dialog.

Hex Workshop v5.0 - October 2007
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  ENHANCEMENTS
  - Added Microsoft Vista support.  This impacted Sector editing
    (requires admin privledge escalation), registration, help format
    and the right-click document context menu. 
  - The Structure Viewer was expanded to support display names,
    verify statements (sanity checking), document types, and a blob
    (unexpanded) native type.
  - The Structure Viewer can now open/apply structures from multiple
    libraries and parse enumerations with values defined in hex.
  - A new "/FILELIST" command line argument allows users to load
    a list of files from a text file.
  - Added buttons to calculate and clear checksums on the checksum
    tab of the Results Window
  - Added buttons to close structure libraries and remove structures
    on the Structure Viewer.
  - Added buttons to clear and remove bookmarks on the bookmark tab
    of the Results Window.
  - Added menus to the Help menu for Bug Reports and Product 
    Suggestions
  - Installer and most components are now digitally signed.

  BUG FIXES
  - Text spacing was incorrect when using the Windows ANSI character
    filter.
  - "DOS Time" rendering in the Data Inspector and bookmarks failed
    when the hour was greater then 15.
  - Fixed possible crash when closing a files with float structures 
    applied and expanded.
  - File properties are now displayed properly for new documents.
  - Many other stability-related bug fixes

Hex Workshop v4.23 - February 2004
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  ENHANCEMENTS
    - The new Find Strings operation can locate all ASCII strings within 
      a document.  Users may specify the minimum string length and require
      that strings end with a null character.
    - The Structure Viewer's maximum array size was increased from
      16K to 64K (#pragma maxarray).

  BUG FIXES
    - The "Hex Edit with Hex Workshop" icon displayed on Microsoft
      Window's right-click context menu was not aligned correctly.
    - Hex Workshop failed to insert data using the "Insert Fill"
      command on some large documents.
    - Hex Workshop crashed if a structure definition spanned past the end
      of a document.
    - The hex editor display could have been corrupted when inserting
      bytes into a document.
    - The Redo command failed to properly redo inserted data.
    - The data inspector unnecessarily repainted while scrolling using
      the scroll bar.

Hex Workshop v4.22 - January 2004
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  BUG FIXES
    - Drag and drop was non-functional when running under Windows 9x/ME.
    - The Hex Workshop help facility failed to launch and/or work
      correctly if "roboex32.dll" was not present on a user's system.
      Hex Workshop now installs "roboex32.dll" into the Hex Workshop
      program directory.
    - The editor display could fail to repaint/redraw properly after a
      scrolling through large files or resizing the window many times.
      This problem was caused by resource leak in Hex Workshop, however,
      only surfaced under Windows 9x/ME.
    - Drag and drop was broken under Windows 9x/ME.
    - Hex Workshop data operations were incorrect when processing 16 bit
      or larger adds, substracts, multiples, divides, mod, and change
      signed operations.  Additionally, the data operation dialogs now
      recall the last used settings.
    - "Hex Edit with Hex Workshop" failed to appear on the right-click
      context menu of some file types.  An icon is now displayed in the
      Shell's right-click context menus. 

Hex Workshop v4.21 - January 2004
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  BUG FIXES
    - Hex Workshop help failed to launch if "inetwh32.dll" was not
      present on a user's system.  Hex Workshop now installs
      "inetwh32.dll" into the Hex Workshop program directory. 
    - The file open dialog failed to open on Windows 9x and NT 4.0.
      This problem was introduced as a side effect of upgrading from 
      MSVC 6.0 to Microsoft .NET 2003.
    - Hex Workshop failed to run on Windows 95 with an error message
      claiming that it needed "oleacc.dll".  This problem was introduced
      as a side effect of upgrading from MSVC 6.0 to Microsoft .NET 
      2003.
 
      
Hex Workshop v4.20 - January 2004
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  NEW FEATURES
    - The Structure Viewer now supports 8, 16, 32 and 64 bit bitfields.
      A bitfield as defined by the C language allows users to modify and
      manipulate data without manually counting, shifting, or masking
      bits.
    - Users can now specify the data type length when exporting data as
      C source or Java source.  8, 16, 32, and 64 bit data types and
      byte swapping are also supported.
    - Hex Workshop can now be used to export data in the Base64 and
      UUEncoding formats.  Copy-As support is also available.
    - Users can now modify the starting offset and view file offsets in
      terms of bytes (default), number of words (bytes/2), or dwords
      (bytes/4).  The offset display is controlled by right clicking on
      the address column of the hex display.
    - Bookmarks are now easier to use and more useful.  The result of
      selecting or double-clicking a bookmark is different:
      - Selecting bookmark: Scrolls the bookmark into view without
        changing the cursor position.
      - Double-clicking bookmark's address: Moves the cursor position to
        the bookmark's address.
      - Double-clicking length: Selects the bookmark data within the
        editor.
      - Double-clicking bookmark's description: Allows you to edit the
        description in place.
      - Double-clicking bookmark's value: If a data type was supplied,
        allows you to edit the data in place.
    - The Results Window has new "Output" tab to aid in development of
      structure definitions.  Debugging information and errors are
      displayed in the "Output" window whenever a user opens a new
      structure definition file.
    - The Structure Viewer's right-click popup menu now contains menu
      entries for "Copy" and "Edit".
    - The Export As dialog now contains a button to modify export
      preferences.  This allows users to more easily change their export
      preferences.
    - F2 may now be used to begin editing the selected structure viewer
      value.
    - Ctrl+C now copies values to the clipboard from the Data Inspector
      and Structure Viewer.

  BUG FIXES
    - Hex Workshop's failure to read all sectors on large disks.
    - Motorola S-Records were not imported correctly when records 
      overlapped or records were out of order.
    - Typo in ANSI character map (online help).
    - Failure of the delete key to remove the selected bookmark.
    - Removed the left and right scroll buttons from the Data
      Inspector's and Results Window's tab control.
    - Defaults file extensions were not applied when changing format
      types in the Export As dialog.
    - Redraw problems when repositioning floating structures containing
      array elements.
    - "Junk entires" are no longer left after collapsing some structure
      definitions.
    - Structure Viewer parsing problems for "typedef enum".
    - Structure Viewer parsing/evaluation problems for signed and
      unsigned modifiers.

Hex Workshop v4.10 - May 2003
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  NEW FEATURES
    - The Hex Workshop Structure Viewer now supports variable length
      arrays.  This allows users to define the length of an array based
      one of the structure's own data members
    - Hex Workshop now handles simple expressions embedded within an
      array length definition.
    - Users can now define their own data types using the "typedef"
      feature.
    - The Hex Workshop structure facility now supports enumerated types.
      Enumerated types allow users to create human readable identifiers
      for unique numeric values.  
    - Hex Workshop Structure Libraries can now reference other structure
      libraries by using a #include directive.  This feature offers
      users better control and organization of their structure files. 
    - End users can now calculate up to 12 different checksums within
      Hex Workshop.  The latest checksum algorithm allows users to
      define a 16 bit or 32 bit CRC by supplying the polynomial, initial
      value, reflective properties, and final XOR value.
    - When clicking the right mouse button over the offset portion of
      the hex editing display, a new context menu is displayed with
      various offset related options: 
      - Switch between hexadecimal and decimal addresses.
      - Specify a starting offset value.
      - Modify how Hex Workshop calculates offset addresses in the hex
        editing display.
      - Modify the length of digits displayed in document offsets.
      - Execute the Hex Workshop Goto command.
    - When importing Intel Hex Code or Motorola S-Records, users can now
      specify the fill byte used for unspecified data regions.
    - When working with big Endian binary files, users can now swap the
      order of bytes display in the editor.

  BUG FIXES
    - Prior to v4.10, imported Intel Hex Code documents could be
      corrupted when records overlapped.  This problem has been
      addressed. 
    - Prior to v4.10, if users clicked on a read-only portion of the
      structure viewer display instead of an editable element, editing
      was not initiated upon pressing F2.  Now, pressing F2 will invoke
      the in-placing edit feature for bookmarks, structures, and the
      data inspector whenever an element has active focus.
    - When an element in the structure viewer has active focus, pressing
      the left and right arrow keys will now collapse or expand the
      structure. 

Hex Workshop v4.00 - January 2003
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  NEW FEATURES
    - Structure Viewer allows you to view and edit data in a more
      convenient and intuitive way
    - "Smart" Bookmarks helps you pick apart and label a data file for
      one time use or to share.
    - Color Mapping helps you visually find patterns and de-emphasize
      uninteresting data.
    - Custom Character Filters allow you to define your own text
      character mapping.
    - Set Floor and Set Ceiling operations allow you to set the min/max
      value for a range.
    - Uppercase, Lowercase and Swapcase operations allow you to
      manipulate ASCII text.
    - Block shift left and Block shift right operations help shift bit
      with carry.
    - Redo command allow you to redo your last undone undo.
    - Copy Sectors Feature allows you to copy sectors between different
      drives and drive partitions.
    - Automatic Version Check helps users to stay on top of latest
      release of Hex Workshop.
    - Enhanced Export Capabilities by allow users to set the maximum
      array size for C or Java export.
    - Enhanced Resynchronizing Compare by adding color to the Hex
      Workshop display area.
    - Enhanced Find All in File adds color to Hex Workshop by display
      for all found occurrences.

  BUG FIXES
    - Inaccurate reporting physical of disk sizes.
    - Changed GUIID of shell extension to avoid conflict with IE.
    - Fixed column resizing inconsistencies with the Data Inspector and
      Results Window controls.
    - Corrected inaccurate size calculations in the saving and restoring
      sector dialogs.

Hex Workshop v3.11 - July 2000
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  NEW FEATURES
    - Hex Workshop can now open files up to 4 gigabytes in length.
    - Added "Copy Address", "Copy All" and "Clear" to the Find Result's
      right-click context menu.

  BUG FIXES
    - Exporting blocks of data as Motorola S-Records or Intel Hex Code
      would occasionally fail.
    - Hex Workshop was unable to Save data after importing from Motorola
      S-Records or Intel Hex Code.

Hex Workshop v3.10 - May 2000
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  NEW FEATURES
    - The Data Inspector now has a scrollbar and a number of new
      inspectors:
        DATE
        DOS Date
        DOS Time
        FILETIME
        time_t
    - Paste Special "Interpret as hexadecimal string" option that allows
      users to paste in hex strings from outside sources.
    - Export formatting options can be set in preferences.
    - Import/Export abilities for 16 and 32 Bit Intel Hex Code formats.
    - Import/Export abilties for S19, S28 and S37 Motorola S-Record
      formats.
    - Export and Copy As Java Source abilties added.
    - Users can now specify the bytes/row for printing in page setup.
    - Save/Restore range of sectors.
    - "Find All Instances" find option.
    - Character Filters have been updated to reverse map ascii data when
      entered.
    - Ctrl+F3 and Ctrl+Shift+F3 accelerators to find selected hex or
      ascii data.
    - Shift+F5 to goto/jump backwards.
    - User Tools now support various context sensitive variables:
      $(FilePath), $(FileDrive), $(FileDir), $(FileName), $(FileExt),
      $(DosFilePath), $(CurrOffsetDec), $(CurrOffsetHex),
      $(CurrSelectionDec), and $(CurrSelectionHex).  
    - Compare Results and Checksum Results windows now have a refresh
      button to recompare or recalculate checksums.
    - Checksums can be view in 1s and 2s complement.
    - Compare results can be filtered by insertions, deletions, matches,
      or replacements.
    - Users can perform a simple and quick non-resynchronizing compare.
    
  BUG FIXES
    - Unsigned Quads were not display correctly in checksum results and
      data inspector
    - Printing/print was crashing where the file path was longer than
      ~80 characters
    - Recomparing a file would clear the compare title
    - Backspace was not deleting selected data in overwrite mode
    - Gradient title bar looked horrible in Windows 2000.
    - Fixed "4 Bit Float" and "8 Bit Double" typos in Find Dialog
    - Fixed crash when finding/replacing on large files.
    - Paste Special now retains last selected format/options.
    - Open Drives now retains selection of last opened drive
    - Fixed various print/print preview problems
    - Font now displays properly on "Display" Tab of Preferences
    - Change Sign failed to operate properly in most situations

Hex Workshop v3.02 - Dec 1999
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  NEW FEATURES
    - 32 bit and 64 bit Checksums
    - Added command line options:
        /READONLY               Open resource in read-only mode
        /GOTO:offset            Jump to a specific offset
        /SELECT:count           Select count bytes from offset

    - Physical Disk Support for Windows 98

  BUG FIXES
    - Customers can now re-register their product by hitting Ctrl+Alt+R
      from the About Box
    - Hex Workshop did not run properly without administration
      privileges on Windows NT
    - Shell right click context menu failed in some cases (related to
      spaces in install directory)
    - Hex Workshop failed to report when files where not found (and
      created them)
    - Added "You must restart Hex Workshop to apply changes on this
      page" to the path preferences page
    - Fixed a bug where Hex Workshop mistakenly thought a file was zero
      bytes after failing a write operation
    - Fixed "invalid temporary file" error caused after failed write
      operation
    - Find Criteria drop down list erroneously cleared search string
      when selection changed
    - Fixed search bug where search strings would not be found
      consistently
    - Physical Drive sizes were reported incorrectly for drives over 2.1
      gigs in Windows 98
    - Toolbar states were not display correctly when starting Hex
      Workshop with a command line parameter.

Hex Workshop v3.00 - Nov 1999
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  NEW FEATURES
    - Large File Support (up to 2 gigabytes)
    - FAT32 Sector Editing
    - Resynchronizing Binary Compare
    - Greater Interface Customization
    - Added Data Operations: Byte Flip, NOT, Shift Left, Rotate Left,
      Shift Right, Rotate Right, XOR, OR, AND, Change Sign, Plus,
      Subtract, Multiply, Divide, and Modulo 
    - Enhanced Find
    - 64 Bit Integer (Quad) Support
    - Character Distributions
    - Added Insert File, Replace Selection with File, and Save Selection
      As File
    - Added Path Preferences
    - Added Unicode display filter
    - Added MD2, MD4, MD5, and SHA1 Checksums


Hex Workshop v2.54 - Sept 1997
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  BUG FIXES
    - Fixed "Display alter bytes" crash when replacing data

Hex Workshop v2.53 - June 1997
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  BUG FIXES
    - Fixed printing problems associated with variable column widths.
    - Fixed crash when replacing data with shorter data.
    - Fixed Undo crash (inserting at the end of a document).

Hex Workshop v2.52 - Feb 1997
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  BUG FIXES
    - Compare Again was not functioning properly.
    - Fixed problems in NT sector editing (search speed and sector
      count).
    - Fixed crash when deleting bytes at end of file.

Hex Workshop v2.50 - Jan 1997
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  NEW FEATURES
    - Installer is now a self extracting archive.
    - Added Data Watch to display and edit decimal values.
    - New Preferences
      - Added user defined bytes/row and Fit to Window.
      - Added new character filters (DOS and Macintosh).
    - Redesigned Preferences tabs.
    - Redesigned Document Properties (offset, insert/overwrite, etc.).
    - Added Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn Accelerators.
    - Find Improvements:
      - ASCII search by Unicode.
      - Ability to pad replacement ASCII strings with nulls.
      - Ability to search by decimal value (byte, long, float, etc.).
    - Added Copy As and Export capabilities (Text, HTML, RTF, and C
      Source).
        
  BUG FIXES
    - Inserting bytes would occasionally cause crashes
    - Miscellaneous display problems
    - Did not handle read only files properly
    - Did not save checksum dialog states
    - Canceling a "Save As" caused "highlight altered bytes" option to
      be reset


Hex Workshop v 2.20 - July 1996
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  NEW FEATURES
    - Added Installer.
      - Creates Hex Workshop Program Group.
      - Installs the Hex Workshop File Manager Extension.
      - Installs the Hex Workshop Windows 95 Shell Extension.
      - Adds Hex Workshop to Microsoft Visual C++ "Tools" Menu.
      - Added Uninstall capability to 32 bit version to remove product.
    - New Preferences
      - Default path to open files from.
      - Can set to open documents maximized.
      - Can choose to highlight altered bytes with a different color.
      - Added new character filters (EBCDIC/ASCII/none).
    - Added new keycuts for selecting bytes.
    - Added Command Line options.

  BUG FIXES
    - Right Aligned Footer not working properly.
    - 16-bit Checksum sign extension bug.
    - Able to handle unlimited size files although performance on very
      large files is poor.
    - Preferences were not being saved in some cases.
    - Base Converter always pasted into one window.

Hex Workshop v2.10 - Feb 1996
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  NEW FEATURES
    - Page Setup
      - Margins, Headers, Footers, Printer Font.
    - Enhanced Disk Editing
      - Support more drive types.
      - Edit in drive or raw disk mode.
    - Context Menu Extension [Win 95]
    - Drag and Drop
      - from shell/explorer [Win 95].
      - from File Manager.
    - File Manager Extension
      - Allows user to add a "hex edit" menu to file manager.
    - Checksum
      - Added 16 bit checksum.
      - Added one's and two's complement modifiers.
    - Enable paste into Find/Replace, Goto dialogs.
    - Added Tool Help Bubbles.
    - Added Dockable Toolbars (32 bit version).
    - Combined Hex Calculator and Bit Calculator into one.

  BUG FIXES
    - Printing continued for infinite number of pages .
    - Editing disks with over 255 tracks didn't work.
    - Sector find wasn't working properly.
    - Compare failed when file comparing two files with the same file
      name.
    - Never performed input range checking for the compare and sector
      dialogs.
    - Dialog background colors where not being set correctly in Win 95.
    - Goto dialog was not always setting the initial focus properly.

Hex Workshop v2.01 - Dec 1995
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  BUG FIXES
    - Signed short was not working properly in the 32-bit version.
    - Launching the calculators failed because of new naming convention.

Hex Workshop v2.00 - Oct 1995
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  NEW FEATURES
    - 32 bit version for Windows 95 and NT.
    - Sector Editor
      - Supports BIOS floppy and hard disks.
    - Checksum calculations
      - Checksum, CRC-16, CRC-16/CCITT, CRC-32 are calculated selection.
    - Right-Click menus
      - Cut, Copy, Paste, Goto, Checksum, Insert for Files
      - Copy, Next Sector, Previous Sector, Goto, Checksum for Disks.
    - Paste Special Command
      - Allows you to paste any format on the clipboard into Hex
        Workshop.
    - New File Command
      - Allows you to open a blank file (useful with paste special).
    - Copy Special Command
      - Places the selected text on the Windows clipboard in a text
        format.
    - Select Block
      - Allows you to select large amounts of data easily (by block size
        or ending offset).

  BUG FIXES
    - Improved display
    - Optimized the selection drawing routines.
    - Fixed crash when trying to open a help component that didn't
      exist. 
    - Print/Print Preview was calculating the number of lines per page
      incorrectly.
    - Could not add (append) to the end of a file.
    - Find Again failed, when changing the cursor position between
      finds.
    - When saving documents, was not clearing undo stack.
    - Copy/Pasting selection over 32K causes random results.

Hex Workshop v1.0 - May 1995
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  ORIGINAL VERSION