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You will probably need the extras zip file, which contains the FreeImage and boost files required to build the project. If you have FreeImage and Boost installed you may not need these. It also contains some image "source" files PDN format , help files, and the Installer source files. Finally, you will need Microsoft's Visual Studio or later. There are separate project files for different versions of VS. Depending on what you want to do you may need some other free tools. You will need Paint.

PDN format. Sorry, but you can't currently change and rebuild the help system but the HexEdit. CHM file is provided. Hopefully after downloading and unzipping the project and extras files , all you need to do is open the project for the version of Visual Studio you are using, tell the compiler where to find the Boost and FreeImage headers and library, and build HexEdit. If all goes well this will create HexEdit. You may get an error at the end of the build of the release version if you don't have ReplaceVistaIcon.

You can run HexEdit. It works fine by itself but to get the best effect you need to copy a few files into the same place as HexEdit. Namely three files from the Graphics directory Backgrnd.

It was not quite ready for the release of VS so was put in a separate feature pack. If you have VS but not the feature pack you can download it here. The Include files and Library files locations for FreeImage and Boost should already be set up in the correct sub-directory.

But if you are using your own copy of Boost and FreeImage then you must set these yourself. Just open HexEditVS When I started work on the template system I was keen to make the format for template files as open as possible, and also use a text not binary format in the hope that others might also support the format.

I had just been reading about XML and this seemed the ideal format for template files. Moreover, using an appropriate DTD would save me a lot of work in parsing any text file to ensure it conforms to the correct format.

DLL , so it was a simple matter to use that. You can copy these files to an existing place where they will be found by the compiler or add the sub-directory to the compiler's location for include files and library files. I normally just copy FreeImage. Of course, you should be careful not to overwrite a new version of the DLL with the version supplied 3. If you have a newer version of FreeImage installed then HexEdit should be compatible but please contact me if there are any problems.

Boost is huge so I have not included all of it, but I have included all the headers you need to build HexEdit in the boost subdirectory. Alternatively you can download and install the full Boost library recommended and set up an include location to point to it. Another optional step is to have replace the default HexEdit icon with one that looks better on Vista and Windows 7.

In the res sub-directory there is a files called hexedit2. As Visual Studio does not properly handle icons like these I used a 3rd party commercial icon editor see Real World Icon Editor to create this file. To add this icon to HexEdit. Once you have ReplaceVistaIcon.

I chose WIX as it was the only free installer that produced a. Though very flexible it is difficult to use unless you are very familiar with how the Windows Installer works. To build the installation you need to download and install WIX I used version 2. In the HexEdit Install directory you will need to edit make. Of course, you have to build the release configuration of HexEdit.

If you did not install the merge modules when you installed Visual Studio you will need to do that now.

Alternatively you can remove the merge module lines from HexEdit. The main file that controls the installation is HexEdit. You may need to change the batch files and HexEdit.

If you are using the HexEdit. Some areas of the design of the software are poor for various reasons but other parts are excellent. A core part is the ability to handle huge files keeping track of changes in memory and temporary disk files. This is all handled in the. There are many comments in the code including detailed design explanations at the start of some source files. Apart from that, the best way I can think to give an overview of the code is to explain the contents of each of the files.

I will just list the header. Generally each header file contains one class and perhaps related structs or classes. There are exceptions as noted. There are several classes and functions I have created for HexEdit that could easily be used elsewhere. In fact many people have emailed and asked for permission to use various parts of the code. There are also components from other people that I have incorporated into the code - these are listed in the later Third Party Code section.

This is the reason HexEdit's searches are so fast. Over the years it has been enhanced to support options like case-insensitive searches, alignment, etc. Many people have used or copied this. CSystemSound - Contains very simple but effective system for defining and playing Windows sounds as seen in the Sound Control Panel applet. HexEdit uses this for many sounds such as for searches. UpdateChecker - Simple class to read a version number from a text file on the Internet.

HexEdit uses this for its monthly check for updates. Similar classes exist for Intel-hex files. It's incomplete and could be easier to use. This is used to implement the encryption commands. Currently it only stores information about all the single key encryption algorithms not public key.

It also stores the current password. The "Ap" classes support bit coordinates on the X-axis, and bits on the Y-axis. These classes were necessary for the HexEdit views to properly display huge files. CDirDialog - CFileDialog derived class that allows the user to select a directory folder by "subclassing" the standard Windows file open dialog. Unlike the Windows recommended SHBrowseForFolder horrible it has many useful features such as being able to see the files in a directory, pasting a full path name, etc, etc.

CTipWnd - CWnd derived class for displaying a small tip window. Use in various places in HexEdit such as Info Tip windows. This is necessary according to MSWindows documentation for raw disk and volume reading used in disk editor. Note that other disk editors do not used non-cached file access, which contravenes Microsoft guidelines but seems to work and in fact makes them faster. It is used to remember and restore each file dialog's window position.

I wrote it to be similar to CScrollView which I found had limitations. It is probably not that well designed but other people have used it in their software and found it useful. This is used to allow the template and aerial views to be displayed in split windows next to the normal hex view. These are used in the display of many user-interface elements. Number formatting functions are used in in various places in the user interface.

These are quite complex and took me a lot of work. Multiple monitor routines are used to make HexEdit behave well in a variety of situations that confuse other programs.

There are many pieces of code that I have incorporated into HexEdit to save writing them myself. These are all open source and generally, I have included the source code. I have not included all the source for Boost, only the parts that are used by HexEdit as it is huge - you can download the full source code, documentation etc from their web site. I also use a commercial help compiler so I have not included the source files for the help system.

Only the final HexEdit. As far as I am aware all of the code that I have incorporated into HexEdit is open source and free for reuse. Please email me if I have violated any licensing terms and I will rectify the situation. I would consider it to be a de facto standard. I added this in HexEdit 3. It has been ported to several platforms but we only use the Win32 DLL that they provide. This allows the effect of a multi-column tree control which is invaluable for the HexEdit template tree view.

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