CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.3.0 - 2024-10-16

UI changes

Hex Editor:

• Del key zeroes out the byte at cursor

Bookmarks window:

• Jump-to button in detail view
• Value edit input in detail view
• Context menu option to copy a bookmark's offset
• Add right click menu option to reoffset all bookmarks based on a known offset (read help label)

File diff window:

• Now takes the value types of bookmarks into account, showing the whole values of bookmarks instead of just raw bytes.
• Add "Highlight all" button to highlight all differences
• Add "Open this" and "Diff with..." buttons to speed up diffing subsequent versions of a file

Find dialog:

• Add help hover popups for the find type dropdown
• Add "string diff" and "pattern equivalence" find types. See the help popups ;)
• Add basic replace functionality to Ascii find

X86 assembly dialog:

• Add ability to jump to offset of decoded instructions

Root context menu:

• Add "copy selection as utf-8 text"
• Add "zero fill" (Shortcut: Del)

External command window:

• Now openable with Ctrl+E
• Allow closing with Esc key
• Add "selection only" toggle to only pass selection to external command

Open process window:

• Add UI to launch a child process in order to view its memory (hexerator doesn't have to be root)
• The virtual memory map window now makes it more clear that you're no longer looking at the list of processes, but the maps for a process.

Jump dialog:

• Replace (broken) "relative" option with "absolute"

Preferences window:

• Make the ui tabbed
• Small ui improvements

Lua scripting

• Replaced LuaJIT with Lua 5.4, because LuaJIT is incompatible with panic=abort.
• Add Lua syntax highlighting in most places
• Add Lua API help window (Scripting - Lua help)
• Add a bunch more API items (see Scripting -> Lua help)
• Allow saving named scripts, and add script manager window to overview them
• Add Lua console window for quick evaluation and "watching" expressions
• Scripts can now take arguments (args table, e.g. args.foo)

Plugins

New feature. Allow loading dylib plugins. Documentation to be added. For now, see the hexerator_plugin_api crate inside the repo.

Command line

• Add --version flag
• Add --debug flag to start with debug logging enabled and debug window open
• Add --spawn-command <command>... flag to spawn a child process and open it in process list (hexerator doesn't have to be root)
• Add --autosave and --autoreload [<interval>] to enable autosave/autoreaload through CLI
• Add --layout <name> to switch to a layout at startup
• Add --new <length> option to create a new (zero-filled) buffer

Fixes

• Loading process memory on windows now correctly sets relative offset
• When failing to load a file via command line arg, error reason is now properly displayed

Other

• Analysis -> Zero partition for "zero-partitioning" files that contain large zeroed out sections (like process memory).
• Add feature to autoreload only visible part (as opposed to whole file)
• Replace blocking file dialog with nonblocking egui file dialog
• Update egui to 0.29
• Experimental support for custom color themes (See Preferences -> Style)
• Make monochrome and "grayscale" hex text colors customizable
• No more dynamic dependency on SFML. It's statically linked now.
• Various bug fixes and minor improvements, too many to list individually

0.2.0 - 2023-01-27

Added

• Support for common value types in find dialog, in addition to u8
• About dialog with version info + links
• Clickable file size label in bottom right corner
• Functionality to change the length of the data (truncate/extend)
• Context menus in process open menu to copy addresses/sizes/etc. to clipboard
• Right click context menu option on a view to remove it from the current layout
• Layout properties is accessible from right click context menu on the layout
• Error reporting message dialog if the program panics
• Each file can set a metafile association to always load that meta when loaded
• Vsync and fps limit settings in preferences window
• Bookmark names are displayed when mouse hovers over a bookmarked offset
• "Open bookmark" context menu option in hex view for existing bookmarks
• "Save as" action
• Hex string search in find dialog (de ad be ef)
• Window title now includes filename of opened file
• Ability to save/load scripts in lua execute dialog
• app:bookmark_set_int(name, value) lua method to set integer value of a bookmark
• app:region_pattern_fill(name, pattern) lua method to fill a region
• Context menu to copy bookmark names in bookmarks window
• Make the offsets in the find dialog copiable/pasteable
• Add x86 disassembly

Changed

• Update to egui 0.20
• Open file dialog opens same directory as current file, if available
• Replace most native message boxes with egui ones
• Inspect panel shows value at edit cursor if mouse pointer is over a window that covers the hex view.
• Make path label in top right corner click-to-copy
• Process name filter in process open dialog is now case-insensitive
• "Diff with file" file prompt will now open in same directory as current file
• Don't insert a tab character for text views in edit mode when tab is pressed to switch focus
• Active selection actions in edit menu are now in a submenu named "Selection"
• "Copy as hex" is now known as "Copy as hex text"
• Bookmarks table is now resizable horizontally
• Bookmarks table is now scrollable vertically
• Native dialog boxes now have a title, and their text is selectable and copyable!
• Bookmarks window name filter is now case insensitive
• Bookmarks window description editor is now monospace
• Bookmark description is now in a scroll area
• Bookmarks window "add new at cursor" button selects newly added bookmark automatically
• Create default metadata for empty documents, allowing creation of binary files from scratch with Hexerator
• File path label has context menu for various options, left clicking opens the file in default application

Fixed

• Show error message box instead of panic when failing to allocate textures
• Prevent fill dialog and Jump dialog from constantly stealing focus when they are open
• Certain dialog types no longer erroneusly stack on top of themselves if opened multiple times.
• Lua fill dialog with empty selection now has a close button.
• Make regions window scroll properly
• Pattern fill dialog is now closeable
• "Select all" action now doesn't select more data than is available, even if region is bigger than data.

0.1.0 - 2022-09-16

Initial release.