Chapter 4. Interface Overview

File → New (Ctrl+N)

Create a new byte array...

• Empty: ... as Empty one.

• From Clipboard: ... by the current content of the clipboard.

• Pattern...: ... with a given pattern.

• Random Data...: ...with random data.

• Sequence: ... with all the bytes from 0 to 255.

File → Export

Export the selected bytes to a file...

• Values: ... encoded as byte values. By default the values are separated with one whitespace. The Separation characters can be changed in the Export dialog.

• Characters: ... encoded as plain text.

• Base64: ... encoded in the Base64 format.

• Base32: ... encoded in the Base32 format.

• Ascii85: ... encoded in the Ascii85 format.

• Uuencoding: ... encoded in the Uuencoding format.

• Xxencoding: ... encoded in the Xxencoding format.

• Intel Hex: ... encoded in the Intel Hex format.

• S-Record: ... encoded in the S-Record format.

• C array: ... defined as an array in the programming language C.

• View in Plain Text: ... as in the data view with offset, byte values and characters.

File → Permissions → Set Read-only

When set, changes may not be made to the loaded byte array.

File → Close All Other

Close all besides the current byte array.

Simple copy and cut send data to the clipboard with the mimetype “application/octetstream”, Klipper is not able to display this data. And almost all other applications cannot handle this, too, as this is simply raw data. So also see for the Copy as submenu.

Edit → Copy as

Copy the selected bytes in one of different formats to the clipboard. For a list of available formats see the menu item File → Export

Edit → Insert

Insert Pattern...

Insert a specified string of bytes at the cursor.

Options in the dialog box allow you to specify the number of insertion of the pattern and it's format (Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal, Binary, Character(s) or UTF-8).

Edit → Deselect (Ctrl+Shift+A)

Deselect the current selection.

Edit → Select Range... (Ctrl+E)

Opens an embedded dialog to enter the range to select.

Edit → Overwrite Mode (Ins)

Switch between Insert mode and Overwrite mode.

Note

Overwrite mode is implemented to be very strict, it is not possible to change the size of the data (no appending or removing of bytes).

Edit → Find... (Ctrl+F)

Find a specified pattern in the document. Hexadecimal, decimal, octal, binary or text patterns can be searched for.

Options in the dialog box allow you to specify the starting point, direction and range of the search.

Edit → Goto Offset... (Ctrl+G)

Move the cursor to a specified offset.

View → Show Line Offset (F11)

Toggle display of the line offset on a pane to the left on and off.

View → Show Values or Chars

Select which of the byte interpretations are shown. Possible are:

• Values

• Chars

• Values and Chars

View → Value Coding

Select the coding of the values from:

• Hexadecimal

• Decimal

• Octal

• Binary

View → Char Coding

Select the coding of the chars from the submenu.

View → Show Non-printing Chars

Toggle display of non-printing chars on and off. If the display is turned off, at the corresponding places in the character column a substitute char is shown instead.

View → Set Bytes per Line

Select the displayed bytes per line from the dialog, the default value is 16 bytes.

View → Set Bytes per Group

By default the hexadecimal values are displayed in groups of 4 bytes. Using this menu item you can adapt this to your preferences in a dialog.

View → Dynamic Layout

Set the rules for the layout of the data display. This defines how many bytes are displayed per line, depending on the width of the view. Possible rules are:

• Off: The layout is fixed to the current number of bytes per line and not adapted on the change of the view size.

• Wrap only complete byte groups: Puts as many bytes per line as possible, as long as groups of bytes are complete.

• On: Same as previous, but allows also incomplete groups of bytes.

View → View Mode

Select the layout for the view from:

• Columns: The values and chars interpretations are shown in the classic layout with each listed in a separate column.

• Rows: The char interpretation of a byte is directly shown under the value interpretation.

View → Split Horizontal (Ctrl+Shift+T)

Split the view area with the currently focused view into two parts and add a copy of the current view to the new, lower area.

View → Split Vertically (Ctrl+Shift+L)

Split the view area with the currently focused view into two parts and add a copy of the current view to the new, right area.

View → Close View Area (Ctrl+Shift+R)

Close the view area with the currently focused view.

View → View Profile

View settings can be separately stored as view profiles. The currently selected profile can be updated directly from the current view settings, or a new one can be created from them. All view profiles can be managed in a dialog available from Settings → Manage View Profiles....

Bookmarks → Add Bookmark (Ctrl+B)

Bookmark a location within the byte array.

Bookmarks → Remove Bookmark (Ctrl+Shift+B)

Remove the current bookmark. This command is only available if the cursor is at a bookmarked location.

Bookmarks → Remove All Bookmarks

Clear the bookmark list.

Bookmarks → Goto Previous Bookmark (Alt+Up)

Move the cursor to the previous bookmark.

Bookmarks → Go to Next Bookmark (Alt+Down)

Move the cursor to the next bookmark.

Settings → Manage View Profiles...

Open a dialog to create, edit, delete and set a default view profile.