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Re: Hallelujah! HexFiend 1.1 Ends My OS X Hex Editor Grail Quest!

Sam Matthews — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:13:05 -0000

Oh, and you can change how it displays ranges by clicking on the status bar. Two of the options are:

2 bytes selected at offset 289 of 50,000 bytes
0x02 bytes selected at offset 0x121 of 0xC45E bytes

And... it's now open source!
http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/

Fish was amused. :-p

Re: Hallelujah! HexFiend 1.1 Ends My OS X Hex Editor Grail Quest!

Sam Matthews — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:04:27 -0000

I requested that RGB-viewing ridiculous_feature!

I (and several people I know) use hex editors to decode old games' data file formats. Being able to visualize graphics is pretty essential. I had asked for a full pixel stream view, but Fish got sidetracked :)

And... still waiting for scriptable data interpretation!

- Frisk

Re: Hallelujah! HexFiend 1.1 Ends My OS X Hex Editor Grail Quest!

Chris Clark — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:52:38 -0000

It's not for Mac OS but 010 Editor is the best hex editor I have ever found:

http://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/

It supports binary templates in a language that looks pretty similar to C header file syntax. Pretty cool stuff and has definitely saved me a lot of time. I swear I don't work for the company, I just really like the tool.

Re: Hallelujah! HexFiend 1.1 Ends My OS X Hex Editor Grail Quest!

Thomas Ptacek — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:36:49 -0000

Get them to open it up! If ever there was a piece of code that begged for contributions, it's that little inspector window in the hex editor.

Re: Hallelujah! HexFiend 1.1 Ends My OS X Hex Editor Grail Quest!

Tom Ferris — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:06:10 -0000

0xED is just as good:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/developme...

;-)

Re: Hallelujah! HexFiend 1.1 Ends My OS X Hex Editor Grail Quest!

Matt — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:14:00 -0000

Is it heresy to admit that I never, ever use Applescript?

No. Applescript is a whirling vortex of pure suck centered on a rock-hard core of lame. For instance, take a gander at some Apple-provided string subroutines:

http://www.apple.com/applescript/guidebook/sbrt...

In particular, note the string replacement function.

I will go to great lengths to avoid having anything to do with Applescript, and I die a little inside every time I fail at that goal.

Re: Hallelujah! HexFiend 1.1 Ends My OS X Hex Editor Grail Quest!

Thomas Ptacek — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:04:43 -0000

Hex/ASCII search. String support is something I'd like to see, and a reason I'd love to see it opened (60% of my blackbag code is just transforms from raw to structured, like Unicode strings).

No Applescript dictionary that I can find. Is it heresy to admit that I never, ever use Applescript?

No disassembly. When I need to disassemble something, I fake up an ELF header and hand it to IDA Pro. All hail GNU "objcopy".

Re: Hallelujah! HexFiend 1.1 Ends My OS X Hex Editor Grail Quest!

Josh Daymont — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:41:53 -0000

What about raw file content dissassembly? Can it be scripted? Can is search file contents for regexes or hex patterns?