Hex editor

[aerosoul94]

Hex editor to be able to view file contents and file system structures.

[burninrubber0]

This has a few potential use cases outside simple viewing functionality. Integration into the cluster chain editor (#10) is an idea - maybe by having a context menu option that allows adding the cluster at the cursor's position to a file's chain. Could also have a side pane that displays information about the cursor's position, such as the current cluster, current file (if in a file), details on that file, etc. These are all off the top of my head, so they can obviously be fleshed out a lot more.

[JayFoxRox]

Export to existing hex-editors would be a more useful feature.
Stuff like outputting wxHexEditor metadata or launching a hex-editor with a certain region pre-selected.
You could potentially make the launch-line configurable for this. Something like "C:/myfavhexedit.exe -select 0x${select_begin:hex} 0x${select_end:hex} ${fatx_file}" where those $-variables will be replaced. Easy to implement and very versatile.

I feel like every hex-editor you could come up with would be worse than most others in some way. There's a very high risk of feature-creep and bloat in my opinion.

[aerosoul94]

Export to existing hex-editors would be a more useful feature.
Stuff like outputting wxHexEditor metadata or launching a hex-editor with a certain region pre-selected.
You could potentially make the launch-line configurable for this. Something like "C:/myfavhexedit.exe -select 0x${select_begin:hex} 0x${select_end:hex} ${fatx_file}" where those $-variables will be replaced. Easy to implement and very versatile.

I feel like every hex-editor you could come up with would be worse than most others in some way. There's a very high risk of feature-creep and bloat in my opinion.

Which hex editors support those command line options? I started looking into it and it seems like wxHexEditor only has an extra option for comparing multiple files. I believe HxD to be the most popular hex editor (as a lightweight editor) but it too does not accept many command line options.

There are also some open source hex editor controls:
https://github.com/abbaye/WpfHexEditorControl
https://github.com/Pkcs11Admin/Be.HexEditor