want to select all or a big byte range on device
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#90 want to select all or a big byte range on device
When I view the content of a device, I'd like to be able to select much or all of it, not just what's in one window. Then I could dump all of that, not just a small selection, into a file. So far, I haven't figured out how to select all of it when all is nearly 4 GiB on a flash drive.
The program's wiki says how to select a range, but, when I applied it to a device (not just a file), the method worked only for a small range, one requiring little or no scrolling (range 156-511), but when I selected a range that's more than one windowful and then tried scrolling back up to the start byte (range 194-114369026), the result was that wxHexEditor quit. That meant I'd have to restart wxHexEditor, select the device again, and select the range again. If I did not scroll up but saved a dump of about 1GiB, the resulting file had no bytes in it andwxHexEditor froze. Thus, in effect, a large range, crossing more than one windowful, cannot be selected. The wiki page is dated February, 2014.
For a range, perhaps expand the Go to Offset (ctrl-g) menu command so a user can enter two offsets, the first and last of an arbitrary range. Maybe click then shift-click or control-a in the text window or the hex window would meet most users' expectations.
I ran wxHexEditor 0.22 on openSuse 13.2 Linux, kept evergreen, and don't know how to set up 0.23.
You can mark "Block Start" and "Block End" bytes with latest version at git.
And properly copied 1,5 GB with Save As Dump with v0.24
You can built it for your PC with "make" command from git.
Regards,