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ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by misnome »

nebulous1 wrote: post #22
misnome wrote: 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?

Yes, the screenshots are excusable initially because they just look like the images have just been shrunk.

But that’s just an accurate reproduction of how it looks at full size!

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by [deleted] »

misnome wrote: 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…

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Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

#33

Post by WerWolv »

misnome wrote: 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…

By default it uses a pixel-perfect font (the one that's included in ImGui) so anti-aliasing will not do anything but make text look blurry.

If you don't like the default font, it's super easy to change it though. Just go into the settings and under Font select your .ttf Font file

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by thrdbndndn »

misnome wrote: 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…

Yeah, and ironically it says "[for] people who value their retinas"..

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

#35

Post by harles »

Hex editors are a seriously undervalued learning tool. As a kid, I loved opening up the game files of stuff I was playing and see what I could tweak.

I’m not sure this particular editor could replace HxD for me - I’m not seeing process memory editing in its list of features. I’m glad to see the space is still getting love though.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by truncate »

harles wrote: post #35

Hex editors are a seriously undervalued learning tool. As a kid, I loved opening up the game files of stuff I was playing and see what I could tweak. I’m not sure this particular editor could replace HxD for me - I’m not seeing process memory editing in its list of features. I’m glad to see the space is still getting love though.

So true! That was my introduction to binary format and serialization as a kid, probably didn't even knew what these words were back then. Or, when something crashed I think there used to be button -- "Debug" an it would open up Visual/Windows Debugger with assembly filling up the screen.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by misnome »

harles wrote: post #35

Hex editors are a seriously undervalued learning tool. As a kid, I loved opening up the game files of stuff I was playing and see what I could tweak. I’m not sure this particular editor could replace HxD for me - I’m not seeing process memory editing in its list of features. I’m glad to see the space is still getting love though.

As a kid, my eyes were opened to this stuff by wotsit.org - when I realised I could start decoding the internals of my games!

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by Bigpet »

Oh, looks neat. I've been looking for a cross-platform hex editor for simple editing (wxmedit kind of sucks on macos and had issues for a while now).

This seems to have some very powerful features, but sadly doesn't support trivial editing stuff. Like when you have a simple text file and need to do some light unicode or other encoding fixups.

Like "delete/remove selection" or "type in ascii replacements for these bytes one after the other".

But I mean it's open source, so if I somehow find the time I might add those.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by [deleted] »

jjoonathan wrote: post #16
kronks wrote: post #3

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

How else are you supposed to debug misbehaving byte order markers and emojis and other U̷̼͌T̷͔̑F̷̤̂ ̴̯͗b̶̤̋l̵̜̈́a̸̭̚c̵͕̊k̶̦̅ ̶͓͆m̸͙̎a̴͖̿g̴̠͝i̸͛ͅc̸̡͌ in your "plain text"?

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Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by sedatk »

harles wrote: post #35

Hex editors are a seriously undervalued learning tool. As a kid, I loved opening up the game files of stuff I was playing and see what I could tweak. I’m not sure this particular editor could replace HxD for me - I’m not seeing process memory editing in its list of features. I’m glad to see the space is still getting love though.

As a long time HxD user, I had no idea that it had process memory editing capabilities.
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