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#40 When editing process memory, allow other process to continue

Milestone: Next_Release

Status: closed

Owner: nobody

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Priority: 1

Updated: 2017-02-25

Created: 2014-05-12

Creator: Mook

Private: No

(This is on Linux, but it looks like OSX is also using ptrace, so the behaviour might be similar.)

When editing the memory of a remote process, the remote process (or at least it main thread) will be paused. It would be nice if that process could resume when wxHexEditor is unfocused/deactivated, and the re-paused when wxHexEditor is next focused, such that the effects of the edits can be seen immediately. Currently the process must be closed in wxHexEditor for the foreign process to resume.

I assume you don't want to deal with updating the view while in the middle of editing, so this might only make sense in the Direct Writing file mode.

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Joel Sjögren - 2016-04-21

I would like this feature. I want to be able to see portions of ram change while the process is running. So I can get an intuition for how ram is handled.

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Death Knight® - 2017-02-25

Moved to https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor/issues/37

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Death Knight® - 2017-02-25

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