0.4.0

Changelog

[0.4.0] - 2025-03-29

Tutorial

There is now a basic tutorial you can find here:
https://crumblingstatue.github.io/hexerator-book/0.4.0/tutorial/00-aitd.html

New features

• Memory mapped file support
• Allow defining data layouts with Rust struct syntax
  • View->Ruler can use struct definitions
• Mouse drag selection
  • You can finally select regions by dragging the mouse, rather than having to use shift+1/shift+2
• Block selection with alt+drag
  • You can select non-contiguous sections by holding alt and drawing a rectangle with the mouse

UI changes

• Add custom right panel to file open dialog
  • Shows information about the highlighted file
  • Allows selecting advanced options
• Backtrace support for error popups
• External command window now provides more options for working directory
• Show information about rows/column positions in more places
• Home/End now jumps to row begin/end.
  • ctrl+Home/ctrl+End are now used for view begin/end.
• The selection can now be quickly cleared with a Clear button in the top panel
• Add a "quick scroll" slider popup to the bottom panel, to quickly navigate huge files.
• Add Find&Replace for HexString find type
• Add a bunch of icons to buttons
• Remove superfluous "Perspectives" menu

Other Improvements

• Make stream buffer size configurable, use a larger default size
• Hexerator now retries opening a file as read-only if there was a permission error
• Hex strings now accept parsing comma separated, or "packed" (unseparated) hex values
• The command line help on Windows is now functional
• Increase/decrease byte (ctrl+=/ctrl+-) now works on selections
• Add Windows CI
• Bunch of bug fixes and minor UX improvements, as usual