Probably a good idea to view this as read-only! :DĮ) Another killer feature would be the ability to specify templates, so that I could annotate and describe segments of data in a file. For instance, I'd like to be able to view the first 512 bytes of my hard drive (the Master Boot Record), which is represented nowhere as a file object. I'm thinking other useful visualizations would include binary, octal, decimal, signed/unsigned integers of various widths, and various character set representations (Latin-1, UTF-8 sequences, UTF-16, etc.).ĭ) A killer feature would be the ability to view raw offsets on the disk (disk editor functionality).

Also, when I jump to an offset, it would be nice if the position was highlighted, not just the line.ī) Font sizes / choices should be persistent across relaunches.Ĭ) It would be nice to be able to visualize data as more than int, float, hex and MacRoman. I think HexFiend has the potential to become a must-have Mac app, but there are a few features I would personally like to see before adopting this as my killer-app must-have hex editor:Ī) 'Jump to Offset' should be able to handle hex offsets. Its permissive BSD-style license won't burden you.

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Data inspector: Interpret data as integer or floating point, signed or unsigned, big or little endian.

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