wxHexEditor is a hex editor.
wxHedEditor uses the wxWidgets GUI libraries.
There is cross-platform support. It runs under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Features include:
- Uses 64 bit file descriptors (supports files or devices up to 2^64 bytes , means some exabytes but tested only 1 PetaByte file (yet). ).
- It does not copy whole file to your RAM. That makes it fast and can open files (which sizes are Multi Giga < Tera < Peta < Exabytes).
- Work with delete/insert bytes to file, more than once, without creating a temp file.
- Memory Usage : Currently around 25 Megabytes while opened multiple > ~8GB files.
- Can operate with file thru XOR encryption.
- Multiple views to show multiple files in same time.
- x86 disassembly support (via integrated udis86 library) to hack things little faster.
- Has colorful tags to make reverse engineering easier and more fun.
- Copy/edit your Disks, HDD Sectors which might be useful for recovering files and partitions manually.
- Sector Indication on dDisk devices, also has Go to Sector dialog…
- Formated CopyAs! It’s easy to copy part of a file in HEX format for C/C++ source, ASM source, also supports HTML,phpBB and Wiki page formats with TAGs!!
- Supports Hex or Text editor alone operation. There’s also the option to disable Offset region.
- Supports customizable hex panel formatting and colors.
- Allows Linux Process Memory Editing operations
- Comparison of binary files, allows merge of near results.
- Supports many encodings including almost all DOS/Windows/MacOS CPs and multi-character sets like UTF8/16/32, Shift JIS, GBK, EUC_KR…
- Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal and LBA (“Sector+Offset”) addressing modes, (switchable one to another by right click of mouse on Offset panel.
- Save selection as a dump file feature.
- “Find Some Bytes” feature for quickly find next meaningful bytes at file/Disk.
- MD/RIPEMD/SHA/TIGER/HAVAL/CRC/ADLER/GOST/WHRILPOOL/SNEFRU checksum functions (via integrated mhash library).
- Import & Export TAGs support from file.
Website: github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor
Support:
Developer: Erdem U. Altinyurt
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
wxHexEditor is written in C and C++. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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