Additions

• Patterns that overlap with the selected bytes in the hex editor view are now highlighted in blue in the pattern data view

Improvements

• Properly center current selection when jumping to it

Bug Fixes

• Fixed scrolling issues and improved the whole scrolling system overall
• Fixed pattern evaluator not exiting evaluating state correctly in some cases
• Fixed new lines in wide strings messing up the data inspector view layout
• Fixed highlighting of separator column in the hex editor view

Pattern Language

• Added non-type template parameters
• Allow custom types to be used inside of sizeof operators
  • This might yield incorrect results if the type's size is not static
• Added better error messages when parsing invalid struct, bitfield and if statements. Thanks to @Calcoph
• Fixed many many issues with templates
• Fixed using control flow statements inside of conditionals
• Fixed padding fields being displayed in bitfields

Previous Changelog

Additions

• It's now possible to add custom Data Inspector entries using the Pattern Language
  • To do this, create a new file in the %IMHEX_PATH%/scripts/inspectors folder with the .pat extension and enter you pattern code there
  • Each value that has been placed in memory using the @ operator will be added to the list
  • To get the current selected offset, use the $ operator
• Added numeric value searching to Find View
• Added unique selection and scrolling position support for each provider
  • This means when you scroll somewhere and select some data in a file, then switch to a different one and select some bytes there, the selection and scroll position in the original file will still remain where they were
• Added icons next to all textfields
  • These display what kind of input this textfield supports. For example: Text, Numbers, Mathematical expressions, Regex, Binary Pattern, etc.
• Modified bytes are now being highlighted in red in the hex editor view until they are saved
• Added Wide Strings (UTF-16) to the Data Inspector
• Added Half Floats to the Data Inspector
• Bookmarks can now be reordered by dragging them around
• The color picker in Bookmarks now has a bunch of predefined colors that can be selected by clicking on them
• Added a Jump to option to the Edit menu that allows scrolling directly to the currently selected region
• Added option to the settings menu to explicitly disable multi window support
  • This is useful for systems that either don't properly support Multi Window support or for people using Tiled Window Managers which get very confused by these extra windows.
  • If you can't open ImHex properly because of this, you can also manually set the hex.builtin.setting.interface.multi_windows setting in the config file to 0
• Added new options to the settings menu to adjust the padding between individual bytes and the padding between ASCII characters in the hex editor view

Improvements

• Reduced File / Provider loading time to basically zero
• Completely removed all lag that happened when typing in the pattern editor
  • This extends out to other things that were doing work asynchronously (Disassembler, Yara, Analyzer, etc.)
• Improved startup time of ImHex by about 50%
• Huge pattern arrays will now be split up into chunks of 512 entries in the Pattern Data View to make them easier to navigate.
• Properly display an error message when a Project failed to load
• Display an error message with potential fixes if the file dialog couldn't be opened on Linux. Thanks to @iTrooz
• The File Provider no longer keeps files open when it doesn't need to
  • This means other applications that support it, can now open files that are already open in ImHex
• Improved selection and drag scrolling in the Hex Editor View
• ASCII Table background colors are no longer hardcoded so it looks correct in Light Mode
• Limited the maximum number of characters that can be displayed in the tooltip that shows up when hovering over a pattern in the Hex editor view to prevent the tooltip from growing indefinitely

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Copy-As Python Array putting a semicolon at the end of the data
• Fixed issues when multiple web requests are running simultaneously
• Fixed issue where file inspector failed to read over page boundaries
• Fixed crash when the hex editor view data visualizer cell byte size was not evenly divisible by the column count
• Fixed many issues and crashes with the Calculator Tool
• Fixed various UTF-8 path bugs that prevented ImHex to work correctly on systems that have non-ASCII characters in their paths
• Fixed issue where the data processor nodes did not remember their position correctly when switching to a different provider
• Fixed potential crashes when trying to paste clipboard data when it's empty
• Fixed flickering of the Pattern Data View when executing a pattern
• Fixed opening files with unicode names through the command line
• Fixed a crash when closing ImHex after launching it through the terminal

Pattern Language

• Added Templates for structs, unions and using declarations
• Break and Continue can now be used outside of arrays to terminate stop evaluating the current type
• Return can now be used anywhere outside of functions to terminate execution of the entire pattern
• Added function to get current hex editor selection as an ImHex Extension
• Added function to demangle a string as an ImHex Extension
• Added support for global arrays
• Allow use of compound statements in global scope
• The ternary operator no longer enforces exactly the same types for the second and third operand
• Fixed highlighting of arrays of arrays
• Fixed bitfield order not resetting correctly
• Fixed indexing of strings
• Prevent the user from indexing other non-array types
• Fixed a crash when using break in an unsized array
• Fixed std::mem::read_signed yielding invalid values
• Fixed formatting of signed hex values
• Fixed accessing of local arrays
• Fixed string pattern not correctly reading all bytes
• Fixed a few out of bounds indexing errors in the Preprocessor
• Fixed reading from local float variables
• Fixed a crash when passing invalid values to the std::time library
• Fixed issue where while-sized static arrays could expand indefinitely beyond the end of the data
• Fixed crash with empty dynamic arrays

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