STR (for latest Notepad 7.9 and HexEditor 0.9.8):

1. Open Notepad++.
2. Open file1 in first tab.
3. Open file2 in second tab and invoke for this tab View in HEX (via command or press icon).

Nothing happend, wait... back to first tab with file1 and you see that View in HEX was apply to that tab. This not happend for session, or if we open files and we will change the tabs at least once.

See this file: "Jail Break (UK) (1986) [a1].dsk"
At adress $12d you display $E2 $88 $9A which is not correct, $00 $00 $00 is the correct value
You can download it at:
https://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/3908/amstrad/Jail-Break-UK-1986-a1.html

(I'm using HexEditor_0.9.5.19_x86.zip with the latest Notepad++ on Windows 10)

The repository https://github.com/darkdragon-001/NPP-Plugins-HexEditor does not exist anymore.
It should be removed from the README.md.

HexEditor crashes Notepad++ v8 while launch Distraction Free mode with Dark mode activated.
To reproduce:

1. Launch Notepad++ v8
2. Open 2 files, put them side by side
3. Enable Dark mode via preferences dialog
4. Launch Distraction Free mode via menu "View->Distraction Free mode"
5. Quit Distraction Free mode by clicking + sign on th upper-right corner
6. Launch Distraction Free mode again: crash

Note that the crash could happen on step 4, or on step 6. If step 6 does not trigger crash, repeat step 4 & step 5, until crash happens.

In order to improve visibility it would be helpful to let the user define different colors (Text and Background) for the Address, Data and Dump column.

I'm using Th.HEX file to Tb.BIN file.
Found this maybe a Bug.
Th.HEX:
:05000000744C7867F666 :00000001FF
Tb.BIN(Should Be):
00000000 74 4C C7 78 67 F6
Tb.BIN(Display):
00000000 74 4C C7 78 67 C3 B6

So If you change or make a bin file in HEX mode, by end of F6.
Than you save and reopen this file, you'll see display is C3 B6.

Thanks.

I copy the dll file to the Plugins folder, but it doesn`t show up in notepad++.
This situation started since i update npp to 7.6.6.
Maybe HexEdit needs an update?

it says that it "Cannot load 32-bit plugin." even if it's 64-bit version.
and it continues : "HexEditor.dll is not compatible with the current version of Notepad++."

Window opened by invoking Pattern Replace... command from plugin menu has wrong title (Insert Columns instead of Pattern Repalce).

STR (for latest Notepad 7.9 and HexEditor 0.9.8):

1. Open Notepad++.
2. Open file in first tab and invoke for this tab View in HEX (via command or press icon).
3. From context menu >> View in >> change format bin/hex or it endianes.

Status bar display previous state. When we change tab to other and back then label is correct. also off/on View in HEX refresh this label.

Hex view display incorrect bite order in 16, 32 and 64 bit modes. It should show reversed order of bytes.
v.0.9.5.19
Example
8-bit:

now in 32-bit:

should be in 32-bit:

Notepad++ 7.6.3, 32-bit.
When the "HexEditor.dll" (version 0.9.5.11) is placed under the "plugins\HexEditor" folder, an empty folder "plugins\Compare" is created when Notepad++ starts.
If the "HexEditor.dll" is removed, the folder "plugins\Compare" is not created.

Notepad++ crashes when I open .nfo files only when HexEditor is installed

Description of the Issue
Notepad ++ freezes when I use hexadecimal editor (Hex Editor) (H icon) and I try to use certain menus of the standard menu bar:
File
Edit
Search
View

Other menus work normally

When n++ freezes I have to terminate the process with task manager.
It freezes in both scenarios if H (Hex viewer) is still active when I use such menus and even if I activate the hex viewer and I close it and than I use menus (after closing it).

Steps to Reproduce the Issue
Just turn on and off the Hex editor
Use one of the listed menus
Expected Behavior
To not freeze

Actual Behavior
Freezes and I have to close the application

Debug Information
Notepad++ v7.3.1 (32-bit)
Build time : Jan 17 2017 - 00:21:10
Path : E:\Software\npp.7.3.1.bin\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
OS : Windows 7
Plugins : CodeAlignmentNpp.dll combine.dll ComparePlugin.dll CSScriptNpp.dll DSpellCheck.dll ElasticTabstops.dll Explorer.dll gtagfornplus.dll HexEditor.dll HTMLTag_unicode.dll ImgTag.dll JSLintNpp.dll JSMinNPP.dll linefilter2.dll mimeTools.dll MultiClipboard.dll NppAutoIndent.dll NppCCompletionPlugin.dll NppColumnSort.dll NppConverter.dll NppExec.dll NppExport.dll NppFTP.dll NppMenuSearch.dll NppQCP.dll NppTextFX.dll NppToolBucket.dll PluginManager.dll PreviewHTML.dll PythonScript.dll QuickOpenPlugin.dll RunMe.dll SourceCookifier.dll WebEditU.dll XBrackets.dll ZenCoding-Python.dll

@wonkawilly wonkawilly changed the title After using HexEditor causes n++ to freeze using certain menus [Bug or Issue] After using HexEditor causes n++ to freeze using certain menus on 31 Dec 2017

Note:
Issue already published on notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#4027

After updating NPP, trying to view file in hex editor results in Access violation.

Latest NPP version (just updated) OS: Windows 10

Thank you for continuing this useful plugin.

I noticed that the 32-bit release build of the DLL is twice the size of that offered on https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/Hex Editor/Hex Editor Plugin v0.9.5/

Why is this? Is this an issue?

Also, the version number within the build has not been updated at all, resulting in some confusion. Is it okay to update it within the DLL to reflect the version number in this repo?

When you switch over to the dump in hex mode and jump to the end of the file and try to insert characters, then the first character is inserted at the end of the file as expected. Any subsequent characters are then inserted at the start of the file.

Is it possible to implement tbl support and DTE encoding.

Although it's a hex editor, when I'm searching for strings, they are usually ANSI or Unicode. As such, please implement a setting to allow those to be used by default for the find (search) functionality.

Alternatively, it could just remember the last type used.

When we turn on View in HEX mode and off this mode then we lost all file's editing history (Undo/Redo not work). Is this intentional behavior?

See https://sourceforge.net/p/npp-plugins/discussion/670932/thread/ba91fc4d/

• issue with cloned view still happens, seems F11 is not necessary, just switching the focus multiple times seems to cause a cyclic call sequence leading to various nullpointer/memory issues
• see also notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#924 and https://sourceforge.net/p/npp-plugins/discussion/670932/thread/39af4cb1/#c106 on .nfo files, seems to be no longer reproducible
• https://sourceforge.net/p/npp-plugins/bugs/search/?q=labels:%22HexEditor%22
• https://sourceforge.net/p/npp-plugins/bugs/297/
• HexEdit doesn't keep the current encoding (e.g. UTF-8 -> Hex -> Ascii instead of UTF-8)

When we have open original Go to window, then running View in HEX should switch this window to Go to window created by plugin, and vice versa (when we turn off View in HEX). Now we can have open both windows in standard or hex view, which is wrong, because one of them doesn't work well anyway. It should be the same behavior as for Find and Replace windows.

@chcg Would be nice to have correct infos, at least for reporting bugs :)

I posted this same issue on this other repository, thinking that it was the official HexEdit plugin:

JetNpp/HexEditor#3

Text in the HexEdit plugin had looked blurry for years. And they quickly fixed the issue. I tried their newly built plugin and text now looks crisp. But that does not seem to be the official repo, that which then populates N++ Plugin Manager (in fact it has no code, just binaries). Is this repo the one?

Source: notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#9232

In this screenshot ,
It's a file with UTF-BOM
I selected letter 's' , but the hex lead me to [2]bf , whitch 's' should be [4]73 .
And it is missing letter [3]'u'
I don't know if it was caused by using Chinese

When file is not too long, hex display has a bug.
The image show the different between BZ and HexEditor.
And BZ is right. HexEditor has a bug when file is not too long (such as the file only has 6bits )

If I copy some hex from the HexEdit plugin to the clipboard and paste it somewhere else, "00" bytes are changed to "20".

I use the newest HexEdtor 0.9.5.19 (2018-02-11) with Notepad++ 7.8.2.

When we turn on View in HEX ten Status bar display Hex Edit View label, but when we off View in HEX then this label is still exist instead of actual selected formatting. When we change tab to other and back then label is correct.

it pops up a dialog box

Exception

Access Violation

OK

how to solve it?

Paste this hex code in the blue area and its crash.
https://pastebin.com/adChvzpE

Debugger:


Video:
https://youtu.be/N0hu251pFZA

The options in the Start Layout Tab do nothing, except for the big/little endian, which can not be tested, as the character width option (I assume that's what the radio buttons are) doesn't do anything.

The other options seem to work fine.

Generally the options do lack descriptions. A few random radio buttons labeled 8, 16, 32 and 64-bit don't say much, really.

Hi,

Great plugin! Thank you for your work. 👍

I suggest to add the option for "Font Smoothing". Futhermore, the option for user setting the "line space".

And please, colorize the Address/Offset in different colour; and the right selection in a different colour too.

I hope you aggree.
Regards.

When we turn on View in HEX mode then the NPP's Menu bar is change (structure and appearance), but after off this mode then the new appearance is preserved (it's more compact).

Watch (left - original menu, right - hex menu):

Is this intentional behavior?

Pressing delete does nothing, neither in dump nor in the hexview.
Pressing backspace moves the cursor, but no data is changed.

@MetaChuh
See https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14341/plugin-manager-removal-hosting/7

cool, i completely missed out that you had the hexeditor plugin ported to x64.

do you use it yourself enough to tweak it a bit ?
if yes, would it be possible to implement a binary copy paste ?
(like the npp built in edit > paste special > copy/paste binary content, or using the npp built in binary safe copy paste routines)

because the normal hexedit plugin 0.9.5 behaviour, if you copy a hex string like:
aa 00 bb 00 cc 00
would be pasted the scintilla way as:
aa 20 bb 20 cc 20
replacing all nul characters with spaces

greetings, metachuh

When a user starts Notepad++ for the first time, "%APPDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\Config"-folder is usually not be available. The HexEditor plugin somehow relies on it but does not create it automatically.

The following behaviour has been observed:

"%APPDATA%\Notepad++\plugins" not available:
Notepad++ hangs with high CPU usage and an increasing amount of used memory.

"%APPDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\config" not available:
Notepad++ just crashes.

Creating the folder manually resolves this issue.

This extension will write to its INI file when Notepad++ closes, even when there are no changes to the settings.

Best to only write to INI file when changes are made, and to do so at the time when those changes are made.

Since version 7.9 of Notepad++ during startup the error: "An exception occurred due to plugin: HexEditor.dll Exception reason: Access violation" appears every time.

Here sounds like solved, https://github.com/JetNpp/HexEditor, but not how, just recompile?

Windows 1809 Home:
NPP 7.5.9 (32 bit) doesn't crash with the X86 plugin (2018) on startup with it enabled here, but hangs whenever NPP's file dropdown menu is activated with a hex edited file opened.
There is a good resource on debugging N++ here, and with a bit of free time, it'll be used. In the meantime, as the issue is more than ten years old with this setup, it's most likely one of the other plugins playing up.
The only ones around for that long were HTMLTag and SpellCheck- so if it isn't them, perhaps RunMe or DBGp.
Attached is a bunch of screenshots along with config.xml that might help.
Note there is a "B" drive on this system- some very old classes may not use it as being a floppy alternative bootable. Mostly water under the bridge by 2009. :)
Info.zip

There will be an exception message comes while using the latest release (0.9.6) of HexEdit with Notepad++ v7.9.

Looks like Dump column visualize content only in ASCII, it would be good to choose a different encoding, minimum UTF-8.

Hi.

I've tested the plugin in Notepad++ v7.6.2 (64 bit) and it works great!.

but in this version I had to manually copy the DLL into the new location:
%ProgramData%\Notepad++\plugins

So, can you please upload it to Plugin Admin (the new Plugin Manager)
you can read more about it here:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/plugin-admin.html

Thanks in advance!

all plugins in the menu have a line about the program, I can find out who the author is, what version. you don't have that. please add information to the menu about the program

Notepad++ x64 7.8.2
HexEdit Plugin 0.9.5
Windows 10

If I perform selections then I can see that the status bar with column/row/selected bytes information gets refreshed, but finally overridden with a default. In the end, it doesn't reflect the real status:

The 64 bit version of the plugin doesn't seem to work properly........ It throws an address violation exception as soon as you try to edit any value. And as a result NPP crashes and exists without saving anything.....

Hello,

autoinstallation via MENU in npp-7.6.2-x86 does not work.

So I had to manually download the ZIP archive with the current plugin version (0.9.5) for NPP x86. Then I created the "NPP\plugins\HexEditor" subfolder and copied the "HexEditor.dll" file from the archive. After restarting NPP everything works.

P.S.:
In plugin information, it says that the plugin is for NPP 5.4 (see attachment). Is it really dead and the old version of the plugin ?

My Notepad++ is version v7.6.6. This is the position after HexEditor.dll unpacked.

But as you see, the plugin is not installed successfully...

I have a Pythonscript installed from startup.py that is set up to receive SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.MODIFYATTEMPTRO notifications.
The callback for this puts a messagebox up if the user attempts to modify a readonly file.

If I use HexEditor plugin (0.9.8) to view a readonly file in hex, that is fine.
However, when I tell it to go back to normal (non-hex) view, it does it, but it also pops up my custom messagebox FOUR times.

HexEditor_0.9.6_x86.zip + npp.7.8.9 x32

encoding=utf8

sample text:
textfile.txt