Hex is an open source hex editor with some features which are useful for analyzing binary files ("reverse-engineering"):
- Numeric viewer: displays the byte selected by the cursor and the following bytes of standard Pascal numeric data types (byte, shortint, word, ..., singe, double, real48) as a usual number.
- Record viewer: allows to construct "records" from the basic Pascal types. The record elements are displayed in "human-readable" form. Commands are available to scroll through the file record by record.
- Object viewer: displays embedded images.
The application is distributed as Pascal source code only. It can be compiled with Lazarus v2.0+/FPC3.0+. Third-party componets used are created at runtime and thus do not need installation of extra packages.
Tested on Windows 32bit/64 bit and Linux 64 bit, but it should work also on other platforms supported by Lazarus.
Besides the Lazarus LCL, the application uses the following third-party components
- OMultiPanel: http://www.kluug.net/omultipanel.php
- MPHexEditor: https://github.com/michalgw/mphexeditor/blob/master/hexeditor.html
Most of the icons are taken from https://icons8.com, style "Office" (https://icons8.com/icons/office) and style "Simple small" (https://icons8.com/icons/small).