Arbeitserleichterungen
Menübefehle, die sich auf individuelle, ausgewählte Objekte im Verzeichnis-Browser oder einer Suchtrefferliste oder eine Lesezeichenliste beziehen, können in dem Kontextmenü gefunden werden, das erscheint, wenn man diese Objekte mit der rechten Maustaste anklickt. Sie finden solche Befehle nicht im Hauptmenü.
Linke Maustaste Blockanfang festlegen (Doppelklick)
Rechte Maustaste Blockende festlegen
Rechte Maustaste Blockmarkierung aufheben (Doppelklick)
Shift+Pfeiltasten Block markieren
Alt+1 Blockanfang setzen
Alt+2 Blockende setzen
Tabulatortaste zwischen Text- und Hex-Modus umschalten
Einfg-Taste zwischen Überschreib- und Einfüge-Modus umschalten
Enter Start-Center aufrufen
ESC aktuellen Vorgang abbrechen, Blockauswahl aufheben, Dialogfenster oder Schablone verlassen
PAUSE aktuellen Vorgang anhalten bzw. fortsetzen
F11 »Offset aufsuchen« wiederholen (mit Strg = von aktueller Position in umgekehrter Richtung)
Alt++ Variante von »Offset aufsuchen«, um x Sektoren abwärts zu springen
Alt+- Variante von »Offset aufsuchen«, um x Sektoren aufwärts zu springen
Shift+F7 Zeichensatz wechseln
(Shift+)Alt+F11 »Block verschieben« wiederholen
Strg+Shift+M Anmerkungen eines offenen Asservats aufrufen
Alt+F2 Auto-Hash (Prüfsumme oder Digest) neu berechnen
Strg+F9 Menü des Zugriffs-Schalters öffnen (bei Datenträgern)
Pressing Ctrl+C in the directory browser copies the textual data of the selected items into the clipboard, with the same notation as in the directory browser itself, otherwise using the functionality of the Export List command.
Alt+Links und Alt+Rechts erlauben das Wechseln zwischen Datensätzen innerhalb einer Schablone (wie die Schalter < und >). Alt+Pos1 und Alt+Ende wechseln zum ersten bzw. letzten Datensatz.
Alt+G bewegt den Cursor im Editierfenster zur aktuellen Position in einer Schablone und schließt die Schablone.
WinHex akzeptiert Dateinamen als Startparameter und öffnet Dateien, die per Drag&Drop (mit der Maus) in das Programmfenster gezogen werden.
Der Einsatz von Scripts kann Ihr Arbeiten mit WinHex effizienter machen.
WinHex kann Dateien öffnen, die per Drag & Drop (mit der Maus) in das Programmfenster gezogen werden. Aber Windows verhindert Drag & Drop, wenn die Zielanwendung als Administrator ausgeführt wurde und die Quellanwendung nicht.
»Ungültige Eingabe«: Nach dem Schließen einer solchen Fehlermeldung zeigt das Blinken eines Steuerelements im darunterliegenden Dialogfenster an, welcher Wert ungültig ist und korrigiert werden muß.
Die Offset-Schreibweise (dezimal oder hexadezimal) läßt sich durch einen Mausklick auf die Offsetdarstellung im Editorfenster umstellen. Die dezimale Schreibweise ist mit oder ohne führende Nullen verfügbar (Mausklick rechts).
Klicken Sie probehalber auf die diversen Bereiche der Statusleiste (linke und rechte Maustaste).
All edit boxes throughout the program (except for password edit boxes and column width boxes) remember a history of up to 10 last entries. The history can be seen when clicking the tiny button that appears in an edit box for which a history is available. Alternatively, you can press the F4 key just like in a normal drop-down box (combo box). If you select a previous entry from the pop-up menu, it will be inserted into the edit box automatically. Users who wish to delete these histories or pass them on to others, please be advised that they are stored in the file History.dat when the program is ended. If you do not wish to keep histories between sessions, you can create an empty file named History.dat yourself and render it read-only. To delete a specific history entry for a particular edit box, selecting that entry from the pop-up menu with the Shift key pressed.
Since the days of Windows 95 (or perhaps even Windows 3.1?) users can press Ctrl+C to produce a plain-text representation of standard Windows message boxes in the clipboard. With message boxes in WinHex and X-Ways Forensics it works the same. Although this is an elementary feature in Windows for more than 20 years already and should be known to any experienced Windows user and although WinHex and X-Ways Forensics make users aware of that ("Did you know? ..."), the great majority of users for some reason still take graphical screenshots of message boxes and paste them into HTML e-mails, for example when they report error messages, although that is more work than simply pressing Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and although it inflates the size of the e-mail unnecessarily, as a few ASCII characters need much less space them thousands of pixel values. That also means the screenshot will get lost if the e-mail is converted to plain text when being replied on, and of course the error message text will not be searchable in a graphical screenshot and cannot be conveniently selected and copied to the clipboard as text by the recipient, and the recipient cannot be sure of the exact Unicode value of certain characters for which multiple variants exist.
In WinHex and X-Ways Forensics it is even possible to copy a rudimentary ASCII representation of dialog boxes and almost all their control items (static text, push buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, list boxes, combo boxes, and tree view controls) including their states (unchecked, checked, half checked) by pressing Ctrl+C with an active dialog box on the screen (not if an edit box with a selection has the input focus). There is also a dedicated command in the window menu of an dialog box. That menu is a.k.a. the system menu or control menu, and it pops up when right-clicking the title of a dialog box. This copy command is a very efficient way to show your settings in a certain dialog box to other users and let them copy strings for use in their own edit boxes, so that they don't have to type them, avoiding typos. The text representation is even more powerful than a screenshot because it shows the contents of edit boxes and list boxes completely, even if these controls have scrollbars and the contents exceed the physical boundaries of the controls on the screen. Unicode characters are supported. We suggest that users take screenshots of message boxes and dialog boxes only if absolutely necessary, for example if they wish to graphically highlight certain control items in a Photoshop or similar programs to get the message across.
Settings in practically all dialog boxes can also be conveniently saved to and loaded from files as needed, for example to share them with other users or for future use, via the system menu. This function can remember the selection states of the most important control types: check boxes, radio buttons, list boxes, combo boxes, and tree view controls. This works even if the controls are currently invisible. The settings are stored in files with the .dlg extension (for "dialog"), in the same directory as templates and scripts. The contents of edit boxes are also remembered. However, this function does not remember the contents/text labels of check boxes, list boxes, combo boxes, and tree view controls, e.g. which code page a check box represents in the Simultaneous Search dialog, which report tables exist in the Report Table filter list box, which external programs are listed in the Viewer Programs dialog window, which file types are listed in a tree view control etc. It also does not remember the order of controls or list items. It also does not remember settings in a dependent dialog window (which opens e.g. when clicking a "..." button). The functionality is not available for the Directory Browser Options dialog window. For the directory browser options please save and load .settings files by clicking the icons in the directory browser caption line. The functionality to store dialog window selections in files is very useful for example for the Export List command, where some users repeatedly need different settings for different purposes, and where the items in the list box are always the same (just the available columns), except after changing the language of the user interface.