Tag: Hex editor
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Adding vi-like functionality to Hexxed
I have decided that I will model the keyboard interface for Hexxed on vi. I know that is not what many/any coming from outside the Unix world will expect, but then there are plenty of Hex editors out there and I want to make one that will appeal to at least one niche. As I…
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Adding keyboard functionality to JTable
I have spent a day chasing this down, so I thought I’d write it up for others searching for a solution. For Hexxed I have the data displayed using a JTable class inside a ScrollPane. I wanted to add additional keyboard driven events to this, but could find no way to get a KeyListener to…
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Hexxed: starting to look that it might be useful one day
It being a Bank Holiday in the UK I have spent a little more time on Hexxed, the hex editor I foolishly challenged myself to write a while back. As the screenshot shows it is starting to look like it might one day be useful.
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Hexxed – back again
My hex editor, Hexxed, is starting to take shape again after I more or less abandoned the first effort due to messy GUI code. I won’t claim the model I am using now is perfect, but I found making use of the observer software pattern, along with the Java/Groovy JTable and JTableModel code has helped…
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In search of a good book on Java Swing
My effort at creating a good hex editor has (temporarily) run aground, as the UI code proved to be just too complex and I was making that bit up as I went along. So, now I need the perennial tool of the computer engineer when faced with difficulty – a good book. Anyone care to…
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Making some progress with the hex editor
Well, the hex editor still feels like a death march project but “I’ve started, so I’ll finish” and I have made a little bit of progress today, and it handles unicode characters (see screenshot). I am not aware of any hex editors doing that (though I am sure some do), so it feels like a…
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