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Sunday, April 13 2008 13:33.01 CDT

Hexer 1.1.0 (click here to download) is primarily a bugfixing release. The following things changed since Hexer 1.0.0:

New Features

• Core: Added a status bar that displays the current offset in hex windows
• Core: Support for the ENTER key to execute a dialogs default action was added to all dialogs
• Core: When selection a result of a file comparison, the corresponding area is highlighted in the hex window
• Core: Added options for configuring the appearance of the hex windows
• Core: Structure Viewer was sped by only calculating the values of visible structure elements
• Plugins: Added hotkey management to avoid duplicate hotkeys
• Plugins: Added a sample plugin that shows how to write plugins in Java
• Plugins: Plugin CLASS and JAR files can now be placed in subdirectories of the plugins directory

Bugfixes

• Core: Improved Linux support
• Core: Fixed a problem with copy/pasting
• Core: Fixed a problem with incorrect highlighting in dialogs like Compare Files
• Core: Structure highlighted is removed when the Structure Viewer dialog is closed
• Core: Fixed some problems when searching beyond the end of files
• Core: Existing dialogs are brought to front when their menu hotkey is pressed again
• Plugins: Fixed a problem that prevented plugin JAR files from being loaded

Changes to the Plugin API

• Added the option to insert bytes into IHexFile objects
• Added the registerAccelerator method to IHexWindow which helps to make menu accelerators unique
• Added finer-grained methods for watching hex windows to IMainWindowListener
• Added several methods for configuring the appearance of hex windows to IHexWindow
• Added a clear method to IStructureHighlighter which clears previous data highlighting
• Added the IStructureViewerHelper which can be used by data viewer plugins to figure out whether they are visible in the Data Viewer dialog
• Moved the method addChildWindow from IPluginInterface to IMainWindow

I hope Hexer works on Linux now. At least it does work on my Ubuntu.

Please report bugs and request features by replying to this blog entry or by sending me an email (see the Contact information in the docs directory of the RAR file).