Can't find HEX Compare

[RunnerBiker]

I want to be able to see a HEX dump of a single file. I haven't been able to find the HEX viewer. Maybe it didn't get installed in build 445.

After I can view one file with the HEX viewer, I would like to be able to compare two files with the HEX viewer.

[Tim]

We're working on the Hex viewer now and hope to have it available in a couple of weeks or so.

[RunnerBiker]

Great news. I use it in BC2 as much as I use the MP3 viewer.

Since the MP3 viewer in Cirrus is seriously improved I might not need it as much, but...

[RunnerBiker]

Hex compare showed up in Beta 446. Thanks.

I use the keyboard for many commands in Cirrus.

Please allow me to use the keyboard to invoke the HEX view. In BC2 I could highlight a file and key:

ALT+A O H

Based on the menus I think ALT+A U H might do it.

[Dave_L]

I don't see the hex compare in build 446. How do you activate it?

[Michael Bulgrien]

It should show up automatically in your Open Session view:

http://mysite.verizon.net/bulgrien/jing/HexCompare.png

...unless it hasn't made it into the Linux version yet...

[Dave_L]

Thanks.

I found it in Build 446 for Windows. In Build 446 for Linux, it's apparently only partially implemented.

[Michael Bulgrien]

If you right-click on two opposing files in a folder session, you should also see it in the context menu:

http://mysite.verizon.net/bulgrien/jing/ContextMenu.png

[Dave_L]

Yes, I saw that too, in the WIndows version. The Linux version only has Text Compare and Data Compare in that context menu.

[Erik]

We'll have "U" be the accelerator for "Compare In New View Using" in the next release.

[RunnerBiker]

We'll have "U" be the accelerator for "Compare In New View Using" in the next release.

Thank you.

I tried to use "Customize Commands" to assign a Shortcut to "Compare in New View Using", but I wasn't successful. I assigning Alt+U but it didn't work. The "Customize Commands" accepted Alt+U

With two files selected I expected to be able to press Alt+U to see the "Compare in New View Using" dropdown and then I expected to be able to press "H" to get a HEX compare. Cirrus did not respond to Alt+U.

Then I tried to open the Actions drop down first. That didn't accept Alt+U either. Actually I entered Alt+A and then I released the "A" and with the ALT key still down I pressed "U". Nothing happened.

[Erik]

In the newest release (447), you can press [Alt], [A], [U], then [H] to compare in a new hex view.

Shortcuts won't work for submenus like "Compare In New View Using". In the next release, you won't be able to set a shortcut for such commands.