InsColor
 Dennis Elser (dennis) <dennis backtrace de> |
Thursday, March 29 2007 13:40.44 CDT |
When quickly looking through a disassembly, one is interested in calls to subfunctions in the first place. In order to visually emphasize call instructions, I've written a little plugin for IDA Pro to color call and branch instructions dynamically. Colors can be customized by the user to his likings. The plugin works independet on the processor architecture.
The plugin can be found in my repository and must simply be placed into your plugins folder (after you've compiled it) ;-)
Credits go to Ilfak since I've adopted most of his "Olden" plugin code (http://hexblog.com/2007/03/dynamic_coloring.html).
Comments
 RolfRolles |
Posted: Thursday, March 29 2007 13:59.51 CDT |
| A similar solution is to turn on "options->general->basic block boundaries". Much the same effect is achieved, except that the branch and call instructions have blank lines after them instead of being colored. | |
 dennis |
Posted: Thursday, March 29 2007 14:02.33 CDT |
| Yep, I have additionally turned this on. My intention first was to color the instruction itself (instead of the whole line) but it doesn't seem to be possible with the current IDA SDK. | |
 drew |
Posted: Thursday, March 29 2007 15:13.21 CDT |
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Here's a direct link to the file: https://www.openrce.org/repositories/users/dennis/InsColor.zip Coloring is the way to go -- it makes my life easier. |
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| dnix | Posted: Friday, March 30 2007 05:05.27 CDT |
| doesnt seem to colour "call eax " etc | |
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dennis |
Posted: Friday, March 30 2007 05:16.50 CDT |
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thanks, will look into it this weekend edit: just tested it, works for me.. |
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| bmazic | Posted: Thursday, April 5 2007 02:16.59 CDT |
| Any chance of providing a binary for IDA Pro 5.0? | |
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dennis |
Posted: Thursday, April 5 2007 07:15.02 CDT |
| no, it works on 5.1 and above only (as far as I know). the reason is that IDA 5.1 introduced a specific callback which is used by this plugin. | |