Menus

The menu bar, located at the top of the Main Window, contains the following menus:

File

This menu contains:

Edit

This menu contains:

View

This menu contains:

  • Add View — adds another view of the currently edited file.

  • Remove View — removes the active view. Even if this is the last view of the corresponding file, the file will not be closed and will remain accessible through the Files menu.

Tools

This menu contains:

  • Converter — opens the Base Conversion Dialog. ADD LINK

  • Character Table — shows a table with ASCII description, a hexadecimal, decimal, octal and binary representation of each value from 0 to 255. A double click on a row will set the byte at the cursor position in the active view to the value of the row.

Settings

This menu contains:

  • Preferences… — This opens the Preferences Dialog, which allows you to configure many settings.

Files

Displays names of all the open files. You can access any of them by simply picking them from this menu.

Help

This menu contains:

  • Help — This opens the designated Help Browser and displays this manual.

  • About — This opens the About dialog which shows basic information about GHex, such as the author's name, the application version number, and the URL for the application's Web page if one exists.