Enhancement - Coloured dots or boxes based on byte (int)? value #14
Description
I once used an editor on Windows (long, long time ago (last century!)). It had the option to visualize values as colours (in a stretchable window). As is known that we humans visualize colour patterns very fast, so seeing forms, records and repeating similar patterns was very easy.
Then you would switch to hex visual mode and attack the patterns and/or singular values in the record you found.
I was using this to extract financial data from a proprietary system to a new format, readable by the new system.
You would switch this on and instantly see blocks of similar records at the beginning of the file (in this case index and global data for each transaction), then scrolling down you would see this form stop and longer record groups appear (transaction data). I found this colour visual format invaluable in my decoding of data.
And have whished to see this simple visual form again in hex editor.
I could probably work through the code myself, but after 50+ years in the software business, I am old, and slow, though I can still script or code things for personal use. Thus, the request for an in-house coder well versed in this system.
PS.
Found the program I was using: AXE, old "Trial version" can be downloaded. Started it in XP (Virtual machine) and took two snapshots of "jpg" image file (near the end, where black stripes are visible) one of coloured pixel format and another of the same selected data in hex mode.
