ddhx - Hex file viewer

I wanted a tool that is simple, light, and does what I want to do quickly, and so I created ddhx.

ddhx is meant as a replacement for my 0xdd tool.

Supported Platforms

Planned features

Basically a TODO list:

• Byte, Word (short), Doubleword (int), and Quadword (long) searching (both endians)
• UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 string searching (both endians)
• Hex dump
• More file info

Screenshots

FAQ

Why port it to D?

Back in 2015, 0xdd was my first tool I ever published to Github. I was still relatively new to programming so not only my skills were lacking, but 0xdd was getting a little messy here and there. So I'm starting from scratch!

C# is a great language. However, it requires .NET or the Mono runtime, and thus taking an extra step installing a framework.

As a native tool, it'll be ready out of the box, faster, and less memory hungry:

• 0xdd, 32-bit release build: 10'632 KB (Working set)
• ddhx, 64-bit debug build : 6'996 KB (Working set)

Where did the EDIT-like menu go?

After fiddling around for a while, I couldn't get a good looking menu system. .NET and Mono does procedures automatically to set the console output to UTF-16 since .NET's String type is UTF-16.

Best I could of done is pure ASCII (with the -|+ set) but didn't look as good.

So for now, a command prompt system (a bit like vim's) is a lot faster to implement and use. I still try to remain a little user friendly.

Why are you making your own console library?

Naming schemes, mostly.