NoGPU releases, Korean translation and better pattern sorting

Changelog

Additions

• Added NoGPU releases for Windows and MacOS! Thanks a lot to @iTrooz
  • This allows ImHex to run on Windows and MacOS machines that do not have any GPU available (as well as Virtual Machines without GPU forwarding)
  • Keep in mind that the entire UI will be Software rendered in these versions so your CPU usage will be a lot higher than with the regular versions
• Added Korean Translation! Thanks a lot to @mirusu400
• Added New File... menu item and shortcut
• Added an error popup when an exception is being thrown in a Task

Improvements

• Patterns in the pattern data view are now automatically being sorted by their address instead of by their name
• Make sure all recent providers show up correctly

Bug Fixes

• Fixed providers not being closed correctly
• Fixed CTRL + F searching not working correctly in many cases
• Fixed filtering in the Find view when multiple files are loaded
• Fixed pattern source code not being loaded correctly from project files
• Fixed data analyzer displaying invalid data for files that are smaller than 16MiB
• Fixed AppImage not being able to make any web requests
• Fixed signed data inspector rows displaying invalid values
• Fixed pattern include paths not being respected correctly
• Fixed race condition when the evaluate pattern button is being spam clicked
• Fixed ImHex sometimes crashing when exiting
• Fixed json parse exceptions being thrown when web requests ran into timeouts
• Fixed window header always displaying (Read Only) even if the file isn't being opened as read only
• Fixed crash when closing a provider that's currently getting Diffd
• Fixed a crash when trying to resize a Read Only file

Pattern Language

• Added std::core library
  • This library contains various "magic" functions to query information or change settings about patterns and the runtime
  • To find out more about this library, check out its source code
• Rewrote entire Stack/Heap management
  • This now finally allows you to properly pass types with dynamic sizes and layouts to functions
  • This also fixes various issues with passing custom types to functions
• Added Debug mode to evaluator
  • This mode can be enabled using the #pragma debug pragma
  • When enabled, various information is being logged to the console and the pattern list will not get cleared if an error occurres
• [[format]] attribute functions can now return non-string types which will automatically be stringifyed when being displayed
• Fixed a crash when creating infinitely recursive types
• Fixed comments messing up error line information
• Fixed variables being placeable from inside of functions
• Fixed accessing global variables from within [[format]] functions
• Fixed a crash when using arrays in functions
• Fixed base address not being set properly in the pattern language
• Fixed unions placing patterns at incorrect offsets
• Fixed incorrect "Array expanded past end of the data" errors

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Task canceling, better window scaling

Changelog

Additions

• Added the ability to cancel many long running tasks
  • To do this, click on the Stop button next to the task progress bar in the footer

Improvements

• Window sizes now also use the current font size to calculate their scale
• Moved the "Close welcome screen" button a bit further to the left so it won't be cut off

Bug Fixes

• Fixed multiple undefined behavior issues
• Fixed the "Learn the Pattern Language" welcome screen button pointing to the wrong URL
• Fixed automatic restarting of ImHex not always working
• Fixed Import/Export bookmarks options requiring a selection to be available
• Fixed hex editor displaying ?? for all bytes when a base address has been set

Pattern Language

• Added more array size checks
• Fixed crash when referencing a invalid type member
• Fixed error reporting in math expressions not working correctly
• Fixed issues when parsing Unions
• Fixed return statements acting like breaks when used inside of loops

Previous Changelog

Thank you so much for the ridiculous amount of 20'000 ⭐ on this project!

Additions

• Replaced terrible existing project file system with a much more flexible one
  • This is a breaking change. If you have existing project files, they will no longer be loadable in ImHex starting from this version
  • To still use your old projects, you can use this Python Script here to extract the different parts of the old project file as stand-alone files that can then be imported again in newer versions of ImHex
• The recents list now contain all providers, not just opened files
• Added Intel Hex and Motorola SREC provider
• Added hexadecimal size of file and selection to hex editor footer
• Added select region command
• Added close button to the welcome screen so various tools can be accessed without opening any data
• Added Bookmark Import and Export option

Improvements

• Added better support for Windows 7
  • You're still much better of by using Windows 10 or 11 instead since a bunch of things simply aren't possible on Windows 7
• Removed dependency on macOS 11 only Framework so ImHex can now run on macOS Yosemite and higher
• Switched .deb compression to gzip so it can be used on older Debian versions
• Various find view improvements. Overlapping occurrences and occurrences at the very end of the file can now be found
• Updated the LLVM demangler dependency
  • All demanglers in ImHex now support the latest C++ features as well as D and Rust mangled names
• ImHex now properly allows opening of all files on macOS when dragging a file onto its executable

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when trying to edit a hex cell
• Fixed various issues with the multi-byte visualizers
• Fixed pattern language runtime not being reset properly after checking for MIME types
• Fixed config files being placed in wrong locations on Linux
• Fixed Windows native theme detection not always working correctly
• Fixed a crash when the auto-load pattern setting is disabled

Pattern Language

• Restructured entire library and cleaned up a bunch of legacy stuff
• Updated Error messages and error display
  • All errors that are being thrown now show line/column information of the error as well as helpful error messages and hints on how to fix it (inspired by Rust errors)
• Fixed for-loop parsing
• Fixed display issues with static array entries
• Fixed reading strings that were passed to functions
• Fixed a namespace resolution crash
• Fixed array out of bounds checks

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Provider and project file bug fixes

Changelog

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when closing provider tabs
• Fixed recent providers not always being selectable
• Fixed pattern in-variables resetting when patterns are being executed
• Fixed restoring of safety backups after a crash not working correctly
• Fixed displaying of unavailable addresses in Intel Hex and Motorola SREC providers
• Fixed a crash when returning patterns or global variables from [[format]] functions

Previous Changelog

Thank you so much for the ridiculous amount of 20'000 ⭐ on this project!

Additions

• Replaced terrible existing project file system with a much more flexible one
  • This is a breaking change. If you have existing project files, they will no longer be loadable in ImHex starting from this version
  • To still use your old projects, you can use this Python Script here to extract the different parts of the old project file as stand-alone files that can then be imported again in newer versions of ImHex
• The recents list now contain all providers, not just opened files
• Added Intel Hex and Motorola SREC provider
• Added hexadecimal size of file and selection to hex editor footer
• Added select region command
• Added close button to the welcome screen so various tools can be accessed without opening any data
• Added Bookmark Import and Export option

Improvements

• Added better support for Windows 7
  • You're still much better of by using Windows 10 or 11 instead since a bunch of things simply aren't possible on Windows 7
• Removed dependency on macOS 11 only Framework so ImHex can now run on macOS Yosemite and higher
• Switched .deb compression to gzip so it can be used on older Debian versions
• Various find view improvements. Overlapping occurrences and occurrences at the very end of the file can now be found
• Updated the LLVM demangler dependency
  • All demanglers in ImHex now support the latest C++ features as well as D and Rust mangled names
• ImHex now properly allows opening of all files on macOS when dragging a file onto its executable

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when trying to edit a hex cell
• Fixed various issues with the multi-byte visualizers
• Fixed pattern language runtime not being reset properly after checking for MIME types
• Fixed config files being placed in wrong locations on Linux
• Fixed Windows native theme detection not always working correctly
• Fixed a crash when the auto-load pattern setting is disabled

Pattern Language

• Restructured entire library and cleaned up a bunch of legacy stuff
• Updated Error messages and error display
  • All errors that are being thrown now show line/column information of the error as well as helpful error messages and hints on how to fix it (inspired by Rust errors)
• Fixed for-loop parsing
• Fixed display issues with static array entries
• Fixed reading strings that were passed to functions
• Fixed a namespace resolution crash
• Fixed array out of bounds checks

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Project file rewrite, Intel Hex & Motorola SREC provider and macOS Yosemite support

Changelog

Thank you so much for the ridiculous amount of 20'000 ⭐ on this project!

Additions

• Replaced terrible existing project file system with a much more flexible one
  • This is a breaking change. If you have existing project files, they will no longer be loadable in ImHex starting from this version
  • To still use your old projects, you can use this Python Script here to extract the different parts of the old project file as stand-alone files that can then be imported again in newer versions of ImHex
• The recents list now contain all providers, not just opened files
• Added Intel Hex and Motorola SREC provider
• Added hexadecimal size of file and selection to hex editor footer
• Added select region command
• Added close button to the welcome screen so various tools can be accessed without opening any data
• Added Bookmark Import and Export option

Improvements

• Added better support for Windows 7
  • You're still much better of by using Windows 10 or 11 instead since a bunch of things simply aren't possible on Windows 7
• Removed dependency on macOS 11 only Framework so ImHex can now run on macOS Yosemite and higher
• Switched .deb compression to gzip so it can be used on older Debian versions
• Various find view improvements. Overlapping occurrences and occurrences at the very end of the file can now be found
• Updated the LLVM demangler dependency
  • All demanglers in ImHex now support the latest C++ features as well as D and Rust mangled names
• ImHex now properly allows opening of all files on macOS when dragging a file onto its executable

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when trying to edit a hex cell
• Fixed various issues with the multi-byte visualizers
• Fixed pattern language runtime not being reset properly after checking for MIME types
• Fixed config files being placed in wrong locations on Linux
• Fixed Windows native theme detection not always working correctly
• Fixed a crash when the auto-load pattern setting is disabled

Pattern Language

• Restructured entire library and cleaned up a bunch of legacy stuff
• Updated Error messages and error display
  • All errors that are being thrown now show line/column information of the error as well as helpful error messages and hints on how to fix it (inspired by Rust errors)
• Fixed for-loop parsing
• Fixed display issues with static array entries
• Fixed reading strings that were passed to functions
• Fixed a namespace resolution crash
• Fixed array out of bounds checks

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Traditional chinese translation, Find view, HiDPI fixes

Changelog

Additions

• Added Chinese (Traditional) translation. Thanks a lot to @5idereal
• Replaced String finder view with a more generic Find view
  • String find supports ASCII, UTF16-LE and UTF16BE string extraction with various settings for allowed characters and null termination
  • New string sequence finder
  • New Regex string finder
  • New Binary Pattern finder
• Added support for Fedora .rpm releases. Massive thanks to @jonathanspw for the help and implementation and @iTrooz for various improvements
• Added ULEB128 and SLEB128 rows to the data inspector. Thanks to @gudzpoz
• Added u24, s24, u48 and s48 rows to the data inspector
• Added RGB565 row to the data inspector
• Added new 3.0x and 4.0x window scaling option
• Added a new error message for when a provider failed to open its source
• Added setting to automatically synchronize pattern source code between providers
• Added support for +Infinity, -Infinity, Signaling NaN and Quiet NaN in the IEEE 754 tester tool

Improvements

• ImHex should now properly scale up on HiDPI screens
• Modernized look and feel of the ancient data information view
• Portable Windows release now no longer uses the AppData folder
• Updated ImGui, ImPlot and ImNodes to the latest version available
• ImHex now resets its settings if it fails to parse them to avoid crashes on startup
• Hex editor cell editing now correctly exits when clicking outside of the cell
• When opening a new provider, the current pattern source code will now automatically be copied over
• Lowered OpenGL requirements to 3.0 on Windows and Linux to hopefully support some older systems
• Numpad enter can now be used in the pattern editor
• Made many float displays easier to read

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Intel GPU detection not working correctly
• Fixed global shortcuts not always working
• Fixed various out of bounds memory reads and issues with multi-byte visualizers in the hex editor view
• Fixed duplicate provider tabs not being selectable
• Fixed crash when trying to search for an empty string
• Fixed various issues and crashes with the search tool
• Fixed crash when selecting a folder as custom font path
• Fixed displaying of truncated strings in data inspector
• Fixed resize cursor not showing up correctly in non-borderless window mode
• Fixed auto-evaluation of pattern language code not working correctly
• Fixed pattern tooltips of static array entries

Pattern Language

• Added the [[sealed]] attibute to make visualizers treat a type as a fundamental type
• Massively improved search speed of Patterns using interval trees
• Increased pattern and array limit.
  • You should now no longer run into these limits as quickly anymore
• Fixed passing enums to functions
• Added the std::time library for working with time constants and getting the local time
• Added the type library with support for many additional type decodings
• Fixed evaluation of in/out variables
• Fixed decoding issues with signed out variables
• Fixed issues with the namespace scope resolution
• Fixed returning heap types from functions

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Bug fixes

Changelog

Additions

• Added filter option to bookmarks view

Improvements

• Downloaded content store items no longer get placed in the /tmp directory when using the AppImage or Flatpak release. Thanks to @catsout
• Improved rendering of bitfield entries in the pattern data view. Thanks to @Diadlo

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various hex editor highlighting, tooltips and selection issues
• Fixed duplicate pattern data view entries when sorting the list
• Fixed various issues with multi-byte visualizers in the hex editor view
• Fixed various base address related issues
• Fixed Edit -> Create Bookmark menu item not working correctly
• Fixed search not working as expected

Pattern Language

• Bitwise operators no longer act like boolean operators
• Fixed passing dynamically sized types to functions

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New builtin types, pointers to arrays and many bug fixes

Changelog

Improvements

• Upgraded codebase to C++23
• Possibly added support for Windows 7 (untested)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed advanced decoding hex editor row not being rendered correctly
• Fixed editing floats, doubles and strings in the data inspector
• Fixed opening files with spaces in their name on Linux not working correctly
• Fixed crash when closing the file picker without choosing a file
• Fixed duplicate file chooser popup entries not being selectable
• Fixed CTRL + O only working when the hex editor view is selected
• Fixed user folders not loading correctly on startup
• Fixed crash when searching for an empty string
• Fixed crash on exit

Pattern Language

• Added u24, u48. u96, s24, s48 and s96 builtin types
• Added support for pointers to arrays. Thanks a lot to @PredatorCZ
• Added support for pointers with signed values. Thanks a lot to @PredatorCZ
• Greatly improved token creation and consuming. Refactored Lexer and Parser
• Fixed invalid placement syntax parsing
• Improved error message when a invalid token was encountered
• Improved querying patterns by address
• Fixed name of returned static array entry patterns
• Fixed crash when querying value of a zero-length string
• Fixed namespace resolution issues
• Fixed overriding the color of static arrays. Thanks to @PredatorCZ
• Fixed passing placed variables to functions
• Fixed In/Out variables not working correctly. Thanks to @PredatorCZ
• Removed empty string patterns from the pattern data view

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More unicode fixes

Changelog

Heyo @shutingrz :)

Additions

• Added a backdrop image when no views are open

Improvements

• Automatically restore default layout when a file is opened but no views are open
• Improved stuttering when resizing or minimizing/maximizing the window
• Improved the Full Sources tar size. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Updated various dependencies

Bug Fixes

• Fixed opening files with spaces in their name on Linux
• Fixed various more Unicode issues

Pattern Language

• Custom type formatting
  • Passing custom types to e.g std::print now prints e.g struct Test { 12, 34, 56 } for a Struct named Test with 3 variables
• Fixed a crash when using provider operators

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Unicode systems support, custom local variables and http proxies

Changelog

Additions

• Added ability to remove bytes from a file. Thanks to @Diadlo
• Added a macOS styled icon to the macOS build and updated the icon on other platforms Huge thanks to @zaafonin
• Added back missing hex editor selection byte count value to the hex editor view footer
• Added support for HTTP and SOCKS5 Proxies. Thanks a lot to @shirok1

Improvements

• Fixed many issues with the macOS .dmg file, and the Linux AppImage and Flatpak. Massive thanks to @iTrooz
• Massive CI Improvements Huge thanks to @iTrooz
  • This includes much improved build times, ArchLinux support, automatic release uploading and many other improvements
• Switched over to GCC on macOS
  • This allows for more cutting edge C++ features to be used in the future
• Lots of Unicode related crashes and fixes
  • Paths are now consistently handled correctly on all platforms
  • ImHex now works correctly when launched from a location with non-ASCII characters in its path or on systems with a user account name with unicode characters in it
• Massively improved pattern highlighting performance
  • Search algorithm is now O(log2(N)) instead of O(N)
• Greatly improved the performance of static arrays in the pattern data view
• Improved the scrolling behaviour in the hex editor view

Bug Fixes

• Fixed byte editing not working correctly in the hex editor view
• Fixed AppImage crashing when opening the file chooser
• Fixed crash when parsing invalid wide strings
• Fixed Resize and Insert bytes popup not working correctly
• Fixed fallback language being accidentally set to Portuguese. Thanks to @LFriede
• Fixed misaligned hex editor selection hightlighting in very big files
• Fixed double clicking on the "... (Double-click to see more items)" item in arrays in the pattern data view. Thanks to @Diadlo
• Fixed a few hex editor highlighting crashes
• Fixed hash function names not being localized
• Fixed crash when undocking the hex editor view
• Fixed various localization issues
• Fixed hex editor selection moving with SHIFT + Arrow Keys not working as expected
• Fixed a crash when copying text to the clipboard on non-english locales
• Fixed system theme detection issues on all OSes
• Fixed In/Out variables not being evaluated correctly when loading a pattern through the context menu

Pattern Language

• Added support for using custom types as local variables
  • This means you can now define structs, unions or bitfields and use and assign values to them inside of functions
• Fixed endian inversion when passing variables to functions in big-endian mode
• Fixed In/Out variables not working correctly when using any pre-processor directives

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Reworked hash view, Brazilian Portuguese translation

Changelog

Additions

• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation. Huge thanks to @dgsmiley18
• Added IEEE 754 floating point number experimenting tool
• Complete rewrote the Hash view
  • It now supports displaying multiple different Hash types at the same time
  • Configured hashes now also appear in the hex editor when selecting a region, hovering the cursor over it and holding down SHIFT
• Added tooltip to all Visualizer data processor nodes that display the visualization a lot bigger

Improvements

• Improved contrast of the pattern language error popup text color in light mode

Bug Fixes

• Fixed editing values in the hex editor
• Fixed another scroll issue in the hex editor
• Fixed pasting bytes in the hex editor view
• Fixed bookmarks automatically collapsing when editing their name
• Fixed a crash when the OS didn't configure monitors correctly
  • This mainly happens when using Windows Remote Desktop

Previous Changelog

Additions

• Rewrite the entire Hex Editor View
  • The Editor now supports displaying data in various different ways. For example it can combine 4 bytes into one cell and display it as floating point number, or 2 bytes into a signed integer
  • Added setting to change color and transparency of selection
  • Added much better tooltips for Patterns and Bookmarks
    • Hold SHIFT for more information
  • Improved popups for find, goto, base address setting and byte insertion
  • Greatly improved search speed and efficiency
  • Fixed hex view not scrolling when moving the cursor off screen
  • Fixed many inconsistencies
• Added support for custom languages for the Wikipedia terms searcher. Thanks to @xtexChooser
• Added bit invert option to data inspector
• Added bool, DOS Date and DOS Time decoder to data inspector

Pattern Language

• Added addressof($) to get the data base address and sizeof($) to get the data size
• Make bitfields be more on-par with structs and allow conditionals to be used in there
• Added support for while-sized paddings
• Fixed pattern language errors not being displayed in the console correctly
• Fixed MIME pragma not working correctly
• Fixed including files that include other files themselves

Improvements

• Added ImHex to FlatHub. Thanks a lot to @Mailaender
• Fixed various issues with the AppImage. Thanks a lot to @iTrooz
  • Opening the file browser still crashes the AppImage, drag-n-drop your files onto ImHex to open them

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