Synopsis: This page includes screen shots that demo the use of Groovy Hex Editor. Groovy Hex editor is a shareware hex editor for editing binary files, data files, savegames, etc.

This is the main window of Groovy Hex Editor. You can see lots of useful parts:

Configuration Bar (the green thing at the top)

Offset / Hex / Ascii Grid (the aqua thing in the middle)

Object Inspector (pinkish thing on the lower left)

File Information Window (center bottom)

Hex Keypad (lower right). (The hex keypad has been replaced by the bookmark list in version 1.6)

Some people have voiced their... lets call it "opposition" ... to the groovy color scheme. Therefore, I've thrown on a whole slew of color options, that you can use the morph the software all the way back to a normal windows look and feel:

Not real exciting (in fact, I'm tempted to call it downright boring...), but not likely to burn out your retinas like the groovy color scheme is.

Here's a picture of the changelog:

Here is a picture of the string sifter, one of the new tools I wrote that pulls all of the ascii strings out of the binary file and puts them in a nice string list. It could be useful -- say for example, you're editing a savegame from your favorite game -- you could hit the string sifter, and (in theory) it would pull up a list of the strings in the savegame, including your characters names:

[More unrelated weird trivia: The strings "Anna Nicole Smith", "Jessica Simpson", "Kirstie Alley", were manually entered into the binary of the file being viewed in order to make a more interesting screen shot...]

Groovy Hex Editor also supports various forms of color coding. For example, it'll make note of the changes you make and color them a different color. Take this example:

The export feature is very handy, and lets you export the current screen (or even the entire file) into a variety of files, including PDF, XLS (excel), HTML (web page), and more. Here's an example of an HTML export: [Note, the table looks a little bit funky because we've included it as a sub-table in this document which might lead to some unusual word-wrapping]

offset 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ascii 00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 ................ 00000040 BA 10 00 0E 1F B4 09 CD 21 B8 01 4C CD 21 90 90 º....´.Í!¸.LÍ! 00000050 54 68 69 73 20 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 20 6D 75 73 This program mus 00000060 74 20 62 65 20 72 75 6E 20 75 6E 64 65 72 20 41 t be run under A 00000070 6E 6E 61 20 4E 69 63 6F 6C 65 20 53 6D 69 74 68 nna Nicole Smith 00000080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 000000A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 000000B0 41 6E 6E 61 20 4E 69 63 6F 6C 65 20 53 6D 69 74 Anna Nicole Smit 000000C0 68 00 4A 65 73 73 69 63 61 20 53 69 6D 70 73 6F h.Jessica Simpso 000000D0 6E 00 4B 69 72 73 74 69 65 20 41 6C 6C 65 79 00 n.Kirstie Alley. 000000E0 53 61 72 61 68 20 4A 65 73 73 69 63 61 20 50 61 Sarah Jessica Pa 000000F0 72 6B 65 72 00 43 6F 75 72 74 65 6E 65 79 20 43 rker.Courteney C 00000100 6F 78 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ox..............

There's really more features than I can even begin to list here. Your best shot is just to download the darn thing and start using it