HexCtrl 3.0.0

HexCtrl now requires a C++20 compliant compiler, i.e. MSVS 2019 or 2022.

New:

• HexCtrl is now High DPI aware. All bitmaps changed to high-res for HighDPI compatibility
• Experimental support for all encodings, with max chars greater than one
• Appearance->Choose font dialog to set desirable font
• Pseudo Random Data option in Fill with Data... dialog, for fast random data filling
• Text UTF-8 search option
• Shift + LeftMouseDblClick now selects whole row
• Search and Fill with Data... routines now show current speed in MB/s
• Double clicking on the text caption area now pops up encodings dialog
• GetFont, GetDateInfo, SetDateInfo, GetUnprintableChar, SetUnprintableChar, SetRedraw interface methods

Improvements and changes:

• Significantly improved search speed
• Significantly improved Fill with Data... routines speed
• Rendering speed has improved, less GDI system calls
• swprintf functions have been superceded by a C++20 std::format facility
• HEXDATA, HEXDATAINFO, HEXMODIFY structs now use std::span, as well as GetData method
• Data Interpreter now correctly displays negative signed integral types
• Lots of other internal changes, fixes and improvements

HexCtrl 2.22.0

New

• DATA_MSG mode removed. There is now only default in-memory and Virtual data modes available.
• IsVirtual public method added
• HEXCOLORINFO, HEXDATAINFO, HEXBKMINFO, HEXMENUINFO structs added

Removed

• EHexDataMode enum removed
• GetDataMode method removed
• HEXNOTIFY struct removed

Changes

• IHexVirtData, IHexVirtColors, IHexVirtBkm interfaces' methods have been renamed and changed
• Some minor fixes and clean-ups

HexCtrl 2.21.1

New

• Inverted search option
• Search for FILETIME struct option

Fixes

• Fixed Undo/Redo in virtual mode caused a crash
• Various minor fixes

HexCtrl 2.21

• Caret is now shown in read-only mode as well as in mutable
• High and Low byte parts can now be selected individually with mouse clicks
• Added Ceiling, Floor, Assign, ROTL, ROTR and Swap Bytes Order Operations
• Support for big-endian data in Operations
• New Fill Random Data option, based on MersenneTwister random number engine in "Fill With Data" dialog
• New HasSelection interface method
• New EHexDataSize enum
• Various internal fixes and clean-ups

HexCtrl 2.20.1

• Added progress bar to Callback dialog
• Added Clipboard->Copy Offset menu
• Search improvements in virtual mode for big step searching
• Minor bugs fixes

HexCtrl 2.20

• New GetData, GetDataMode, GetCacheSize interface methods.
• New HexCtrlDefs.h file with all public structs and enums, decoupled from IHexCtrl.h.
• Reworked context menu, new "Search Next/Previous" submenus.
• Fixed bug with endless loop in search. Also few small bugs fixed.
• Fixed and removed all internal circular dependencies.

HexCtrl 2.19.2

• New SetOffsetMode method
• New "Search" abilities: Big-endian, Match case, Limit search hits field
• Few search usability improvements
• SetShowMode renamed to SetGroupMode, GetShowMode renamed to GetGroupMode
• Minor fixes

HexCtrl 2.19

• New ability to search with wildcard.
• Minor fixes.

HexCtrl 2.18

• New Navigation menu with many navigation abilities.
• New SetCaretPos interface method.
• New HEXVISSTRUCT, and respectively reworked IsOffsetVisible method to return this struct.
• New EHexCmd members.
• GoToOffset method redesigned to take one additional arg, showing new offset at position (top, middle, bottom).
• Many internal cleanups and simplifications. Minor fixes.

HexCtrl 2.17

• New Go to address... dialog
• New interface methods: GetDataSize, GetPagesCount, GetPagePos, GetPageSize, SetPageSize
• Bookmark manager dialog improvements
• Few fixes and tidying up