sp <foobarcom>

Sunday, June 22 2008 09:19.37 CDT

Heres my hex editor Hexer 1.3.0 which brings the following new features:

• Core: Added support for different languages (English and German are available so far)
• Core: Tools and components that are closely tied to individual files (file statistics, structure viewer, ...) are now part of the hex windows of those files.
• Core: A few commandline options were added.
• Core: Console mode was added to the scripting dialog.
• Core: Added scripting support for JRuby

The new console mode for scripting is actually pretty cool. It is very helpful when youre developing scripts or just toying around with the scripting API for a while (enter as many lines in the console as you want and then hit CTRL-ENTER to execute them). Thanks to a recently fixed bug in the JRuby scripting engine Hexer can now finally support Ruby scripting too for those who prefer Ruby over Python.

Some bugs were fixed too:

• Core: Added missing tooltips to several menus.
• Core: The Java-Array exporter now creates a byte[] array instead of a char[] array
• Core: Fixed a bug which broke shell integration when Hexer was placed in a directory that contains whitespaces.

Ive also made some changes to the Plugin API

• Added the option to display simple progress dialogs.
• For performance reasons, the method IHexFile::getData does not return a copy of the file data anymore but the actual file data itself.
• Several interfaces that deal with the structure viewer were added or modified.
• The IStatsPlugin was replaced by the IFileSpecificPlugin

You can download Hexer 1.3.0 here. Any kind of feedback is appreciated. Thank you.