View menu

This topic describes the commands in the view menu.

• Character translation
• Character translation: Unicode
• Editor offset format
• No editing
• Insert mode
• Number format
• Show position relative to EOF
• Show window bar
• Synchronize
• Highlight values

Character translation

With these commands you can switch between different character translations. These translations are used to convert characters from one charset to another when displaying and typing them in the character pane of the editor windows. The "Edit/Find/Replace" command is also affected by the character translation when searching for text.

• Windows: Do not convert characters (used to edit files containing Ansi text data)
• Dos 8 bits: Use it to edit files containing text in DOS charset
• ASCII 7 bits: Use it to edit 7 bits ASCII files
• Macintosh: For editing files containing Macintosh™ text
• EBCDIC codepage 38: For files in EBCDIC character set
• Custom translation: For files in other formats, you can edit the conversion tables using the "Edit custom character translation" dialog

Unicode

In Tiny Hexer it is possible to display unicode text, also basic editing of unicode characters is supported. Switching to unicode mode also affects the "Edit/Find/Replace" command. In unicode mode, no single bytes can be selected, deleted or inserted, only whole unicode characters are editable (each unicode character consists of two bytes).

Note: 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 bits unicode, the file must consist of whole 16 bits (= 2 bytes) values.

• Unicode (little endian): Use it to edit little-endian unicode files
• Unicode (big endian): Use it to edit big-endian unicode files

Editor offset format

These commands allow you to change the format of the offset display (the leftmost part of the editor windows).

• Hexadecimal: Show cursor offsets in hexadecimal (16 based) notation
• Decimal: Show cursor offsets in decimal (10 based) notation
• Octal: Show cursor offsets in octal (8 based) notation
• None: Don't show cursor offsets
• Absolute offset: Switch offset display between absolute offset addresses and sector/memory block relative addresses when editing disk sectors/memory blocks

No editing

After switching to "No editing" mode, the affected editor window acts as a file viewer only, the data isn't editable any longer via mouse or keyboard input (but still using plugins and scripts)

Insert mode

Use this menu command to switch the editor from insert to overwrite (overtype) mode

Number format

These commands allow you to change the format of numbers displayed on the status bar.

• Hexadecimal: Show numbers in hexadecimal (16 based) notation
• Decimal: Show numbers in decimal (10 based) notation
• Octal: Show numbers in octal (8 based) notation

Show position relative to EOF

Using this command, you can modify the display of positions on the status bar (relative to start of file or relative to end of file)

Show window bar

Using this command, you can toggle the visibility of the window bar.

Synchronize

This command allows you to synchronize cursor position, view and selection of two editor windows, i. e. if you change the position in one editor, it is automatically changed in the second editor too. This feature is particulary useful when comparing the contents of two files. When switching on synchronization, you can choose the second editor window from a dialog. You can also specify a position offset (e. g. if you select an offset of 400, the cursor in the second editor is set to the position of the first editor + 400). Use the Shift+Tab keys to quickly switch between the two synchronized editors. Synchronization can be turned off by using this command again.

Highlight values

Allows you to enable or disable specific colorization for different data values. These definitions can be changed on the Plugins page of the Global options dialog (Use the Configure button after selecting the "Data highlighter" plugin)