String view

[BacchusFLT]

Hacking around in a Worlde typ of game, there is a dictionary with a number of words - all five characters long.

Doing Edit Data Operand -> String it shows all of the text like a block. Using a Densly packed data I can get five byte per row, but then as bytes. I guesss I was looking for a combination. I can't say if this is a corner case, but here I would have wanted to have fixed size strings...

In the same program, it looked for special words and then ppresented a small message. These messages were stored with $FF as the terminating characters. Had it been $00 I could have taken the segment and convert to zero terminated strings, but there is no option for an arbitrary end character.

(I should also say that playing with this and open the hex viewer witht he relevant text block selecte and selecting Petscii in the pulldown of the hex view window, the program crashed and terminated but I have been unable to reproduce that later).

[fadden]

The best you can do with the current dialog is to format the block as 5-byte dense hex, then double-click each one individually and use Alt+M to format as string. Pretty tedious. The alternative would be to use a script to do the formatting. FWIW, a similar issue was raised in #163 .

To do it via the edit dialog, this could be managed with a checkbox that says, "don't combine adjacent lines". So you'd format the block as 5-byte hex then re-format as strings, but the formatter wouldn't try to merge the bytes back together. I don't know how generally useful this would be though.

Strings with custom delimiters also feel like a problem best served with a script or programmable data definition.

With regard to the crash, see if there's a file called "CrashLog.txt" sitting in the main SourceGen install directory. The newest crash should be at the end of the file.