Hex Edit control

They picked a good one to emulate. I hope they didn't just steal the code!

I use hex dumps more for analyzing files than for editing. I've found one thing that really helps is to band the output (like old 132-column line printer paper, if any of you are old enough to remember that). Here's the output from my program. I may eventually also allow editing, but since the code is more for my benefit than my customers, I'm not in a hurry; I usually use Visual Studio to do the rare bit of hex editing I need.

I also allow various bases (2, 8, 10, 16) and word sizes (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8), some for convenience of noticing patterns in RGB triplets (3 & 6), since I work with images. It can also switch between ASCII and Unicode for the text display.



The font here is Deja Sans Mono. Deja Sans is a relatively complete Unicode font with nice output and the nice dotted zero.