WerWolv/ImHex v1.36.0

We're back!

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First of all, massive thanks to @paxcut, @iTrooz and @jumanji144 who fixed and maintained ImHex while I was not around.

Features

• Added a loop node to the data processor
  • This should allow for much more complex data processing
• Added support for enumerating system fonts on Linux. Thanks to @ColinKinloch
• The pattern hover tooltip of the hex editor now shows the offset to its parent
• Massive improvements to the Pattern Editor. Huge thanks to @paxcut
  • The editor works much more like other editors
  • There's way too many improvements to list them all. Just try it out yourself!
• Added a quarter precision option to the IEEE 754 tool
• Added customizable segment separators to the hex editor view
• Added annotations to the data information view where big entropy dips or spikes are detected
• Added an export option to the disassembler view. Thanks to @BioTheWolff
• Added "Disassemble selection" option to the Edit menu
• Added Image base address and Image load address options to the disassembler
• Added option to paste strings into the hex editor view

Improvements

• Improved and modernized the look and feel of various views
• Demangling now works correctly with identifiers that do not start with an underscore
• The data processor now runs in the background so it doesn't freeze up the UI anymore
• The table in the diff view is now resizable
• When clicking on a diff in the diff view, the same region is now being selected in the main hex editor view
• Hovering over patterns in the hex editor should not tank the frame rate anymore in some cases
• Pattern descriptions are now being displayed in the accept pattern popup
• stderr is not being completely suppressed anymore now
• Inline visualizers may now be used in custom data inspector rows
• Improved 3D visualizer error handling
• Improved naming and shortcut display for various menu items
• Command palette results (such as the calculator) may now be clicked to move their result back into the palette input
• Updated ImGui to latest version

Bug Fixes

• ImHex won't try to connect to the API anymore on startup now if server contact is disabled
• The log is no longer being spammed with error messages now if an invalid data region is being viewed in a process data provider
• Fixed 3D visualizer textures not being rendered correctly
• Fixed issues when hashing large data regions
• Fixed multiple race conditions that could crash ImHex while patterns were being sorted
• Achievements should no longer reset now after a restart
• Fixed issue where CRC64 parameters in the hash view were limited to 32 bit
• Fixed issues with shortcuts using CTRL instead of CMD on macOS
• Fixed inserting bytes at the start of the file using insert mode not working correctly

Pattern Language

• Added various new built-in types
  • Types such as hex::type::Json for decoding json strings or hex::type::Instruction for disassembling bytes.
• Added option to import existing patterns into other patterns.
  • You can for example use import * from elf as ELF; and then place the ELF type anywhere you want to decode ELF data there.
• Added lz4 decompression support
• Added reinterpret-expressions in the form of pattern as OtherType.
  • If both sides have the same size, this will interpret the bits of patterns as a OtherType type
• Added functions to change the pattern color palette and reset the current palette progress
• Processing patterns after evaluation has finished should be much quicker now
• The bitmap visualizer can now handle indexed colormaps. Thanks to @paxcut
• Added [[fixed_size]] attribute to set the minimum size of a type to a fixed value or throw an error if the type gets larger than this
• Enums are no longer evaluated on every use
• Added user-defined literals in the form of 123_literal or "Test"_literal(1, 2, 3)
• Added a IMPORTED macro that's defined when a file is being imported by another
• Various preprocessor and lexer improvements. Thanks to @paxcut

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