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ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Referring to the title: Is a hex editor useful for literally anybody else? As a reverser it does seem amazing!

If you're writing tools that generate spec-based binary files, you need a debugger that lets you examine generated files at the binary level. For instance, I don't think you can do any OpenType font tool engineering (as in, working on applications that generate fonts) without having a good hex editor to check whether the binary internals of your files are structured correctly.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Do all ImGui apps have text rendering this bad? I'm having trouble smoothly reading... any of the text, at least on Mac. It has a settings box, which allows you to change font size (but appears to do nothing), and a scaling option which ... just seems to make the artifacts bigger. Switching to dark mode (by default it matched the system) made it slightly better just by virtue of having more contrast (and all the sett…

Do you have the same issue with the screenshots?

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

At work, I sometimes have to encode or decode binary data, to which I have full specs, and a hex editor is an extremely valuable tool. A hex editor is to binary data what a debugger is to code, a packet analyzer is to networking, and an oscilloscope is to electronics. These tools can be used for reverse engineering, but it is certainly not their only purpose.

What tool do you use now ?

010 Editor (commercial). But I may give ImHex a try.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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post #3

Referring to the title: Is a hex editor useful for literally anybody else? As a reverser it does seem amazing!

I don’t work with binary files much these days but I still use hex editors a lot just to debug any weird rendering glitches in terminal emulators. The ability to see the exact character codes being generated rather than the terminal emulators interpretation of them is invaluable. Though for that purpose hexdump is usually sufficient.

Back in the 90s, when I was working with binary data regularly, I’d have killed for something like ImHex.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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post #18

Do all ImGui apps have text rendering this bad? I'm having trouble smoothly reading... any of the text, at least on Mac. It has a settings box, which allows you to change font size (but appears to do nothing), and a scaling option which ... just seems to make the artifacts bigger. Switching to dark mode (by default it matched the system) made it slightly better just by virtue of having more contrast (and all the sett…

Do you have the same issue with the screenshots?

The screenshots are so jarring to read. Zero anti-aliasing?

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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post #18

Do all ImGui apps have text rendering this bad? I'm having trouble smoothly reading... any of the text, at least on Mac. It has a settings box, which allows you to change font size (but appears to do nothing), and a scaling option which ... just seems to make the artifacts bigger. Switching to dark mode (by default it matched the system) made it slightly better just by virtue of having more contrast (and all the sett…

Do you have the same issue with the screenshots?

If you're referring to the images from the README under the title "Screenshots" (currently https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10835354/139717326... and https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10835354/139717323...) then yeah, that text rendering is pretty bad.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Thanks a lot for the love! If you have any feature requests, face any problems or have any questions, please open an issue on my GitHub page and I'll make sure to look into it as soon as possible. There's also a Discord server linked at the top of the Readme

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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post #18

Do all ImGui apps have text rendering this bad? I'm having trouble smoothly reading... any of the text, at least on Mac. It has a settings box, which allows you to change font size (but appears to do nothing), and a scaling option which ... just seems to make the artifacts bigger. Switching to dark mode (by default it matched the system) made it slightly better just by virtue of having more contrast (and all the sett…

I was going to ask this. As someone with fine-detail vision issues, I found the font rendering uncomfortable.

Also, you can exit the app without any warning to save your work. I submitted this as a feature request.

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