HexCtrl 3.6

• New interface methods:
  • GetScrollRatio
  • IsInfoBar
  • GetDlgItemHandle, to retrieve HWNDs of dialogs' items.
• New EHexDataType enum added
• New Sample Dialog DLL project added, for showing HexCtrl work as a DLL
• New UnitTest project added
• New HEXCTRL_FLAG_DLG_NOESC flag added, common for all dialogs
• New IHexTemplates::AddTemplate(PCHEXTEMPLATE pTemplate) method added
• GetColors() interface method now returns a const reference
• Two new members added to the HEXCOLORS struct: clrBkBkm, clrFontBkm (Bk/Font colors for bookmarks)
• HEXBKM struct: new member added HEXCOLOR stClr, instead of two COLORREFs to be consistent with the rest of codebase
• HEXTEMPLATEFIELD struct: new HEXCOLOR stClr instead of two COLORREFs
• GetWindowHandle renamed to GetWndHandle, and now takes second argument bool fCreate
• Static IHexTemplates::LoadFromFile function added, to be able to load templates once upfront and then add to many HexCtrls
• HEXTEMPLATEFIELD->HEXTEMPLFIELD
• Operations dialog redesigned
  • Description added for every operation
  • SSE intrinsics added for most of the Operations
  • OPER_ASSIGN speed increased drastically
  • Speed of some operations has increased up to 15x times
  • OPER_CEIL/OPER_FLOOR renamed to OPER_MAX/OPER_MIN
• CreateHexCtrl now takes HINSTANCE arg defaulted to nullptr
• Data Interpreter binary property now shows binary representation of the selected data type, previously it was limited to just one byte
• Search dialog redesigned
  • Added range start/end fields
  • Find All/Replace All speed increased drastically
  • Found/Replaced amount is now shown in the search Callback's dialog
  • SSE intrinsics added for 1, 2, 4 bytes data size, search speed has increased significantly
• Go to... dialog redesigned
• CreateRawHexCtrl factory function removed
• GetDlgData method removed. All HEXCTRL_FLAG_* removed
• SetDlgData -> SetDlgProperties
• Minor fixes and improvements

HexCtrl 3.5

• Partially modularized
• "End offset" field added to the Search dialog
• HEXCREATE::stColor member changed to pColors pointer
• HEXCREATE fields: dbWheelRatio->flScrollRatio, fPageLines->fScrollLines to avoid confusion with the term "Page" from the SetPageSize method
• SetWheelRatio renamed to SetScrollRatio
• (Set/Get)GroupMode renamed to (Set/Get)GroupSize and can now be used with arbitrary [1..64] size number
• EHexCmd new members: CMD_GROUPDATA_INC, CMD_GROUPDATA_DEC
• New mouse_wheel_up, mouse_wheel_down command names for setting in config file
• New SetCharsExtraSpace interface method, to set extra space in pixels between adjacent chars
• New members added to the HEXCREATE struct: dwCapacity, dwGroupSize, fOffsetHex
• New HEXCTRL_FLAG_TEMPLMGR_NOESC, HEXCTRL_FLAG_DATAINTERP_NOESC, HEXCTRL_FLAG_BKMMGR_NOESC dialog flags added, to prevent dialogs from closing on Esc key
• Overall search speed has been increased by 10-20%
• Many internal fixes and improvements

HexCtrl 3.4

Breaking changes:

• GetHexCtrlInfo method and HEXCTRLINFO struct have been removed
• GetEncoding method renamed to GetCodepage
• SetEncoding method renamed to SetCodepage.
• EHexWnd::DLG_ENCODING -> DLG_CODEPAGE
• EHexCmd::CMD_ENCODING_DLG -> CMD_CODEPAGE_DLG
• EHexWnd::DLG_BKMMANAGER -> DLG_BKMMGR
• HEXCOLORINFO struct and IHexVirtColors interface are slightly changed
• CMD_CLPBRD_COPY_TEXTUTF16 -> CMD_CLPBRD_COPY_TEXTCP
• CMD_APPEAR_FONTCHOOSE -> CMD_APPEAR_FONT_DLG
• Renamed codes:
  • HEXCTRL_MSG_CARETCHANGE to HEXCTRL_MSG_SETCARET
  • HEXCTRL_MSG_SELECTION to HEXCTRL_MSG_SETSELECTION

New:

• New "Reverse Bits" Operation added
• New SetDlgData and GetDlgData interface methods added.
• New notification codes added:
  • HEXCTRL_MSG_SETCAPACITY, HEXCTRL_MSG_SETCODEPAGE, HEXCTRL_MSG_SETFONT, HEXCTRL_MSG_SETGROUPMODE,
  • HEXCTRL_MSG_DLGBKMMGR, HEXCTRL_MSG_DLGCODEPAGE, HEXCTRL_MSG_DLGDATAINTERP, HEXCTRL_MSG_DLGGOTO,
  • HEXCTRL_MSG_DLGMODIFY, HEXCTRL_MSG_DLGSEARCH, HEXCTRL_MSG_DLGTEMPLMGR
• New Flags added:
  • HEXCTRL_FLAG_TEMPLMGR_MINIMIZED, HEXCTRL_FLAG_TEMPLMGR_HEXNUM,
  • HEXCTRL_FLAG_TEMPLMGR_SHOWTT, HEXCTRL_FLAG_TEMPLMGR_HGLSEL, HEXCTRL_FLAG_TEMPLMGR_SWAPENDIAN,
  • HEXCTRL_FLAG_DATAINTERP_HEXNUM, HEXCTRL_FLAG_DATAINTERP_BE, HEXCTRL_FLAG_BKMMGR_HEXNUM

Other:

• All the HEXCTRL_VERSION_*** constants are moved to the HexCtrl.h and now available for the client code

HexCtrl 3.3

• Drag-n-drop for any files added to the Sample Dialog
• Interface method GetFont(LOGFONTW& lf) signature was changed to auto GetFont()->LOGFONTW
• Template Manager dialog redesigned a bit
• Bookmark Manager dialog redesigned
• Some EHexCmd entities were renamed to follow one common pattern:
  • CMD_BKM_DLG_MANAGER->CMD_BKM_DLG_MGR, CMD_DLG_TEMPLMGR->CMD_TEMPL_DLG_MGR, etc...
• Renamed IHexBookmarks::ClearAll->RemoveAll
• HexCtrlDef.h was removed
• bool fShow member added to the HEXMENUINFO struct, to allow parent window disabling context menu showing up in response to the HEXCTRL_MSG_CONTEXTMENU message
• Latest Rapidjson
• Latest StrToNum
• Minor bugs fixes

HexCtrl 3.2.1

• Big improvement in HexCtrl's creation speed
• GetHexCtrlInfo now returns HEXCTRLINFO instead of pointer
• Further Templates improvements
  • array property added
  • CustomTypes, for user created types
• Tree iteration in Templates manager is now much faster, and some other small improvements/fixes

HexCtrl 3.2

New

• Template manager
• Ability to set mouse scroll to exact amount of lines, SetWheelRatio now has second argument.

Misc

• Fixed many inconsistencies in Data Interpreter with big-endian

HexCtrl 3.1.2

• Sample dialog window's title now shows opened file name
• Bugs fixes

HexCtrl 3.1.1

New:
InfoBar is now togglable, it can be hided/showed.

• ShowInfoBar interface method
• HEXCREATE::fInfoBar flag
• HEXCOLORS::clrFontInfoParam, HEXCOLORS::clrFontInfoData colors for infobar

Other:
Many internal improvements/bug fixes.

HexCtrl 3.1.0

New

• Paste as Text UTF-16 and Paste as Text Codepage (to paste text in currently displaying CP) menu
• UTF-16 codepage in encodings dialog list
• GetActualWidth, GetBookmarks, SetVirtualBkm interface methods
• IHexBookmarks interface which is now the main housekeeper for both - internal and Virtual bookmarks.
• New icons added to the context menu.

Changes

• EHexCreateMode enum removed
• All the Bkm* family functions have been removed along with the IHexVirtBkm interface

HexCtrl 3.0.0

HexCtrl now requires a C++20 compliant compiler, i.e. MSVS 2019 or 2022.

New:

• HexCtrl is now High DPI aware. All bitmaps changed to high-res for HighDPI compatibility
• Experimental support for all encodings, with max chars greater than one
• Appearance->Choose font dialog to set desirable font
• Pseudo Random Data option in Fill with Data... dialog, for fast random data filling
• Text UTF-8 search option
• Shift + LeftMouseDblClick now selects whole row
• Search and Fill with Data... routines now show current speed in MB/s
• Double clicking on the text caption area now pops up encodings dialog
• GetFont, GetDateInfo, SetDateInfo, GetUnprintableChar, SetUnprintableChar, SetRedraw interface methods

Improvements and changes:

• Significantly improved search speed
• Significantly improved Fill with Data... routines speed
• Rendering speed has improved, less GDI system calls
• swprintf functions have been superceded by a C++20 std::format facility
• HEXDATA, HEXDATAINFO, HEXMODIFY structs now use std::span, as well as GetData method
• Data Interpreter now correctly displays negative signed integral types
• Lots of other internal changes, fixes and improvements