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Version history of HxD ====================== Below you find a list with the added features, changes and fixes for each version. Version 1.6.1.0 --------------- - Modern icons - History in the search and replace dialogs - Recent file list in the file-menu - Locale charset is used if ANSI is selected (before Windows-1252 was hardcoded) - Tabs can be closed by a middle click - The text in the information field of the Update-checker is word wrapped and indented for better reading - Disabled icons are grayed more beautifully if the classic Windows style or a pre Windows XP system is used - MDI-menu appears/disapperas only after fully maximizing or minimizing a window - Do not dereference URLs, instead open the .url-file itself - Fix: Closing the options dialog by OK resets the theme instead of applying it - Fix: Menu is on the wrong screen on a multi monitor setup - Fix: BartPE doesn't load HxD because of a missing WOW32.DLL which is only needed on Windows9X - Fix: Drawing bug of the grayed icons under Windows 98 - Fix: Tabbar scroll bug, order of closing, order of change, drawing bug... - Fix: Windows error message when writing to a disk under Windows 98 - Fix: Error message "Out of memory" when copying between two instances - Further small corrections Version 1.6.0.0 beta -------------------- - New functions * Split file * Concatenate files * Safely delete files (Shredder) * Insert bytes * Fill selection - Enhancements of existing functions * Clipboard was largely reworked: o Unlimited amount of data can be copied (unlimited = free RAM) o Support for Unicode o Paste/Copy Hex Dumps o Progress display o Additional native clipboard format for HMTL and RTF, allows pasting of formatted text into apps like WordPad or Mozilla Thunderbird (instead of the source code) * Searching supports true Unicode (not only ANSI subset), allows searching of special characters like those in the DOS-char set * Backup-enhancements: o Progress display when creating backup o Backup creation can be cancelled o Warning when there is no place for a backup * Speed up exporters a lot and added progress display * Progress display for "Copy as" * Save/Save as have a progress display * Reducing memory fragmentation when inserting * F5 updates the folded sections in the RAM-Editor * Blinking of the entry "Readonly" in the Status bar when trying to modify a read only file * When reopening the Search-dialog the old search text is selected * Scroll search result into the middle of the window for better overview * Respect offset base in exporters * Unicode support for printing * Some corrections to printing * Overall better Unicode support for all operations where file names are involved * Generally added progress display for all lengthy operations * New keys usable with foldable sections: + on num block opens a fold - on num block closes a fold * on num block opens all folds / on num block closes all folds * Drag&Drop of tabs moves the tabs on mouse movements instead of drawing a black insertion line * Added a cancel button to the dialog with security warning "Opening a disk without write protection" * After "replacing all" a message box with the count of replaced occurrences is displayed - Bug fixes * Fix: Find next doesn't work after opening a new file or changing to another file * Fix: "Export to" doesn't warn when overwriting existing files * Fix: Search bug and the DOS-char set was chosen * Fix: Search bug if a search was previously done in another window * Fix: Entering invalid hex values in the search dialog generates an AV instead of a good error message * Fix: Changing of the char set isn't respected when doing "Find next" * Fix: Exporter for HTML, TeX und RTF didn't use the currently chosen char set but always ANSI * Fix: Column-offsets >= 100 aren't drawn correctly * Fix: Cache-bug when reading from disk * Fix: "Replace all" doesn't replace all occurrences * Fix: Select all and then delete => Undo doesn't work * Fix: Deleting the selected bytes => Undo reinserts them but doesn't resize the file * Fix: Command line isn't correctly processed since Unicode support * Fix: When having multiple instances the correct instance isn't focused and the file is loaded in the wrong instance * Fix: Undo of very large files (> 4GB) doesn't work * Fix: After Undo of two hex characters the caret stays inside the hex pair * Fix: Replace dialog warns of a file resize even if the file size wouldn't change * Fix: Modal dialogs sometimes hide behind the main window, so it appears HxD hang * Fix: After closing a system-dialog (file open, print, ...) the HexEdit isn't focused again * Fix: Progress display of replace-function doesn't correctly display the remaining time * Fix: Selecting with Shift+Page Down/Page Up causes flicker * Fix: After a stream reading error the "Top sector" tool tip stays visible * Fix: Copying of the editor view doesn't support Unicode * Fix: On simple graphic card drivers there are no symbols on the toolbar * Fix: TXmGroupbox leaves artifacts when theming is active * Fix: Controls in the info dialog don't have the correct dimension/position when "Large fonts" are activated * Fix: ColorComboBox font and color are grayed when disabled * Fix: Flickering of Toolbar after closing options-dialog * Fix: Small memory leak after File|Save * Fix: Small memory leak after File|Print * Many more small corrections Version 1.5.2.0 --------------- - HxD now supports Unicode file names under Windows NT+ - Internal optimizations to keep the exe size down (which was increased by the Unicode support) - Update-search shows changes in the language of the running HxD version Version 1.5.1.0 beta -------------------- - Added Internet update checker - Minor caret movement improvement - Fix: Wrong caret position after deleting last byte of a row - Fix: Formatting for modified data isn't loaded/saved correctly - Fix: Exporting to Pascal, C, Java always uses empty file name - Fix: Management error of the internal formats list which resulted in some painting bugs - Fix: Display problems under Asian systems - Fix: When typing hex digits at the end of a row, caret doesn't move into next row - Fix: Caret position not always correct after undo - View options can be set globally in the options dialog (vs. locally in the toolbar) Version 1.5.0.0 beta -------------------- - Modified data highlighted red and bold (configurable) - Major internal optimizations regarding foldable section. This is especially visible when opening large programs with the RAM-Editor and doing mouse selections - Optimized undo, which uses now far less memory by not saving original data - New function "Open Disk-Image" (you can specify the sector-size) - Reworked options dialog - Optional creation of backup-files - Offsets can now be displayed additionally as decimal or octal numbers - More precise detection when progress dialog should show - Selection-scrolling is more intuitive (also fixed a related bug) - Mouse selection is smoother and more precise; a selection can begin inside a hex pair - Tooltip window beside the scrollbar showing the top sector when editing disks or disk images - Page up and page down preserver the caret position - Navigating to nibbles when clicking inside hex pairs - Order of tabs can be changed through drag&drop - Reworked scrollbar: hides when not needed, correctly handles resizing of window - Tab control draws its background according to the selected theme - Tab and hex editor controls are visually united - Minor visual adaptations - Fix: After a "replace all"-operation the progress dialog sometimes keeps open - Fix: Change order of Ctrl+Tab corresponds to the MDI order, not the order as seen in the tab control - Fix: During a replace-operation the "resized file"-notification pops up several times Version 1.4.2.0 --------------- - New menu command "Refresh": updates the view and the caches - Navigating to Nibbles (= half bytes) can now be done with CTRL+Left respectively CTRL+Right - Reactivating of HxD after drag&droping a file onto the program - FIX: Error when reading diskettes under Win9X (error did not appear with all BIOSes) - FIX: The remaining duration in the progress window is displayed as time (pm/am) - FIX: Focus-problems of the progress window - FIX: Rotated caption of the checksum-panel is under Win9x very small - FIX: Flickering border when changing the window size and Windows-themes are active. I fixed the corresponding bug in the VCL. - FIX: If hex-editor window is very small an access violation appears - FIX: Replace-dialog kann be shown, even when in readonly-mode, whichs stops replace-operations anyway - FIX: Replacing with nothing raises an access violation - FIX: RAM-Editor tries to show guarded pages - FIX: Replace all: the progress window disappears often to reappear shortly after again - FIX: Confirmation dialog sometimes outside the screen - FIX: New instance does not take over the multiinstance-settings - many other corrections Version 1.4.1.0 beta -------------------- - FIX: Write error when inserting (due to overwriting of memory) - FIX: Ctrl+Shift+End raises an access violation - FIX: Wrong position of caret after insertion - FIX: A special order of insertion and deletion raises access violations - FIX: Starting HxD multiple times under Win9x raises an OS-exception (managment error with DiskIO.dll) - smaller optimizations - correction of caret-movement in corner cases Version 1.4.0.0 beta -------------------- - HxD now support reading/writing onto logical or physical drives also under Windows9x. All kinds and all sizes are supported (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, disk with int13 extensions and without). CDROM support will follow. - Notifications/Warnings can be deactivated (directly in the message window or in the options) - Ask for user confirmation when deleting or inserting bytes - VB-Exporter removed: There is no reasonable way to define big arrays - Clearly less drive noise and no error message (happened on some NT 4.0 systems) when checking for a inserted disk - Modal dialog boxes flash when clicking outside the dialog box (as usual under Win98/Win2000+) - FIX: After "Saving as..." the whole filename is showed in the caption, but it should be without path - FIX: Deleting a selection with DEL does not update the statusbar - FIX: Deleting-function generates new foldable sections, but it should resize the existing ones - FIX: Delete with backspace was buggy - FIX: If caret is in a folded line, it doesn't move when scrolling horizontally - FIX: Changing between hex- and text-sections with TAB does not correctly redraw the selection - other little things Version 1.3.0.0 beta -------------------- - New feature: Data-Folding - resizing of bookmark-symbol if text smaller than 16x16, else centering - FIX: Searching of integer numbers in big endian format was incorrect - FIX: Resizing of the window causes sometimes wrong caret repositioning - FIX: Although multiple instances are allowed, the first instance is always activated - FIX: "Save as" and "Export" aborts without showing the save-dialog, when default filename contains illegal characters - FIX: With some special fonts: After a restart of HxD another font is displayed than was selected the last time - FIX: Writing into readonly/unassigned memory regions causes drawing errors (however data is left intact). Version 1.2.2.0 --------------- - Fix a minor caching issue Version 1.2.1.0 --------------- - HxD is activated when a new instance starts and single instance option enabled - Information displayed in the StatusBar is updated when MDIChild changes - FIX: Trying to open a non-existant file using the commandline creates several access violations and error messages - FIX: Displaying statistics of logical drives craches the program (caused by buggy caching-system) - FIX: Progress-window sometimes creates floating point division by zero - FIX: Opening pure Audio CD as logical drive generates access violations - FIX: In a corner case caret position is not set correctly after undo - FIX: Detection if a floppy disk is inserted is not always correct and causes the DriveOpen dialog to display wrong information (necessary checks make again empty floppy drives emit more noise) Version 1.2.0.0 --------------- - Buffered reading making navigation more pleasant - Sector separators and buttons as well as keyboard shortcuts added for drive navigation - On WinXP+ the whole drive is viewable/editable even if the driver reports faked information - Filename, StartOffset, EndOffset, Length and Date information was added to source code exporters - Minimzed floppy disk drive noise when checking if a floppy is inserted - New function: Select block (From-to-selection) - Drawing of the offset col and row is synchronous with the drawing of the data section, even if source is slow (e.g. floppy disk) - reduced PageControl flicker - reduced flicker when maximizing windows - Windows are opened maximized by default - Single instance option - Drives are opened write protected by default - Pasting was extended to work with non-resizeable streams, such as drives: If there is enough place data overwrites old data instead of beeing inserted - Theme can be changed in options (default or Tristan 2) - Checksums/Digests can be copied to clipboard using the contextmenu or keyboard shortcuts - FIX: Entering a character in overwrite mode deleted the selection and then overwrote the following character, instead of just replacing the character at the caret - FIX: Big streams (e.g. drives) didn't correctly work with scrollbars - more corrections Version 1.1.0.0 --------------- - Searching supports new data types: - Integer numbers - Floating point numbers - Exporting supports new formats: Motorola S19 Records, Motorola S28 Records, Motorola S37 Records, 16 Bit Intel Hex, 20 Bit Intel Hex, 32 Bit Intel Hex - reduction of EXE-file size of 376 KB through optimized source-code (not EXE-compression), to make it fit on a 1.4 MB diskette (for exmaple when you need HxD for recovery work) - FIX: Searching hex-values did not always return the correct result - FIX: When Horizontal scrollbar jumped back, window content was not updated - other minor tweaking Version 1.0.0.0 beta -------------------- - Diskeditor for viewing/editing Harddisks, Floppys, USB-Drives, ... (NT-only) - RAM-Viewer is now a RAM-Editor - exporting of data to source code (Pascal, C, Java, Visual Basic) or as formatted output (plain text, HTML, Richtext, TeX) - calculating checksums and digests: Checksum-8, Checksum-16, Checksum-24, Checksum-32, CRC-16, CRC-16 CCITT, CRC-32, Custom CRC, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD-2, MD-4, MD5 - new layout of search-dialog - improved searching: added 'backward' and 'all' search directions - added replace function and matching dialog - new offset header - horizontal scrolling - added ghost caret: a dotted box that surrounds the character/hex value corresponding to the character/hex value under the active caret - removed flicker when activating other MDI childs - basic printing - better error handling - improved the matrix-like animation in the info-dialog (open menu "?" and click on "Info") - options are saved to registry - fixed undo: when deleting a selection undo was a two-step process - fixed various painting issues - fixed slow loading/closing of many files - fixed wrong icons in tabs - many small fixes - English version available Version 0.8.5.0 alpha --------------------- - written from scratch, for outermost flexibility and speed - handling of unlimited file size - searching - RAM-Viewer - unlimited undo - statistics - MDI interface with tabs - bookmarks - first official version of HxD - only available in German 
