taviso/kiewtai

A port of Kaitai to the Hiew hex editor

kiewtai's Issues

Show values also in names

By adding values next to the label names, the Label view would be even more useful:
not just for navigating, but also understanding - particularly useful to understand an enum or a mask.

License

Please provide a license file.

Filter the parser list instead of search it.

It makes more sense to filter the parser list instead of searching it.

This should be easy enough, just rebuild the menu list.

Reduce memory usage by only copying data as necessary.

The first release copies all the data to analyze and gives it to Kaitai, but this isn't necessary - I could change how KaitaiStream works to only request data as it needs it, which would use much less memory.

This would require some duktape callbacks, but shouldn't be a problem.

Kiewtai stops parsing some Elf files early

There's a bug in the Elf .ksy that causes an exception on some well-formed Elf files, I filed it upstream at kaitai-io/kaitai_struct#754

I think they're saying this commit might fix it:

kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats#279

Remember to import this fix and rebuild for the next release.

Note: the exception is harmless, it just stops parsing earlier than expected

Auto-format selecting

Provide an "Auto" entry/hotkey that just checks for the magic and selects the right parser.

Choose better color palette for highlighting fields

I picked alternating blue and white to highlight fields, but I should experiment and find a better color palette.

Note to self: it's easy to add this, just choose some colors and add them to this array, they'll automatically get added to the rotation.

static HEM_BYTE ColorMarkers[] = {
    MKCOLOR(HEM_WHITE, HEM_LIGHTBLUE),
    MKCOLOR(HEM_LIGHTBLUE, HEM_WHITE),
};