Frequently asked question (FAQ)

On this page some frequently asked questions about Tiny Hexer are answered.

Bugs:

Bugs already fixed in Tiny Hexer are listed in the version history.

General:

How can I prevent files from being opened in Tiny Hexer when accidentally doublecklicking them in Explorer?

You can switch the integration of Tiny Hexer into Explorer's context menu from the "Global options" dialog.

How can I prevent Tiny Hexer from creating an unnamed editor window?

There are two ways to start Tiny Hexer without showing an empty document window:

• Start Tiny Hexer using the /n command line switch.
• Switch off the option "Open a new editor window at startup" in the "Global options" dialog.

The "View/Character translation/Unicode..." menu entries are sometimes disabled. Why?

Unicode mode is disabled on odd sized files (i. e. files whose size is not divisible by two without remainder). As Tiny Hexer can only display 16 Bit Unicode, the file must consist of whole 16 bits (= 2 bytes) values.

Tiny Hexer Small Edition:

How can i use preconfigured settings in Tiny Hexer SE on BartPE?

As of version 1.7, Tiny Hexer does not use the registry any longer to store its settings. They are stored in a "mpth.dat" database file (located in the temporary directory in the Small Edition). To be able to preconfigure Tiny Hexer Small Edition, it looks for a file "mpth_small.ini" in its program folder and stores the settings from this file in the mpth.dat settings database if the database file does not yet exist. To create such a preconfiguration .ini file, use the "Options/Save settings" command in Tiny Hexer and select the .ini file type (use the full version to create the settings file if possible, it can store more settings like e.g. toolbar button configuration). The distribution package of Tiny Hexer Small Edition includes an example (look at mpth_small.ini).

Tiny Hexer Small Edition does not start on WinPE!

There is a bug in version 1.0.1.11 of mpth_small.exe which prevents it from working under WinPE. Please upgrade to the latest version.

Disk editing:

What are the differences between sectors, absolute disk positions and caret positions?

Tiny Hexer cannot operate on a whole drive or partition for the time being, so you have to load a part of the disk's data into memory to edit that data.
Disk data is stored in sectors, each volume has a specific sector size. Usually hard disk volumes have a sector size of 512 byte, CDROM sectors contain 2048 byte of data.
So if you open a hard drive volume and select an amount of 16 sectors at once, 16*512=8192 byte of disk data are displayed at once in the editor.

Using the "File/Disk/Goto sector/position" menu command you can either navigate to a specific sector or an absolute position. If you choose an absolute position, the sector representing this position is loaded into the editor and the editor's caret will be set to the position relative to the sector that matches the selected absolute position.
An example: Choosing the absolute position 4711 on a hard disk (sector size 512 byte) will load sector 9 into the editor and set the caret to offset 103 as 4711 divided by 512 results in 9 (sector) and 4711 modulo 512 results in 103 (offset).