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Index on left not starting from zero
- Don't laugh but what I use it mainly for it hex view of commodore 64 files. Your numbering in the left is the index in the file. The C64 program file format has a word (in low/hi format) that tells the start address. I would welcome an option/mode where the tool would pick the first word and use that as the baseline for the index count. So this would mean two things: basing the index on something else than 0 and also using the first word as that basis.
I would need to think about this one. This is a very niche behavior. While I understand why it would be useful, given your specific context, it targets a very small audience.
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I sure understand that I could be the only one whom would be interested in this specific use case.
I was more thinking if this could be generalised. One would be the function to add an offset to the index.
The other would be a header parsing that would read a number of bytes that wouldn't be viewable as the binary payload. If that could also extract values that would use the adjusted index, the the function would be general.
There are probably numerous binary files with specific structures with additional metadata that could be extracted. I will consider it, but I cannot promise whether I will spend the time on such a task. HexViewer is meant as a fairly simplistic hex viewer and even more limited editor.
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Indeed there is a plethora of formats, and adding that is opening a can of worms.
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There are probably numerous binary files with specific structures with additional metadata that could be extracted. I will consider it, but I cannot promise whether I will spend the time on such a task. HexViewer is meant as a fairly simplistic hex viewer and even more limited editor.
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