BinEd - Binary / Hex Editor

Variant: Library / Component

Free and open source library for binary/hex viewer/editor component written in Java.

Downloads

Release	Stable	Development
Library	0.2.1 [2023-12-30]	0.2.1 [2023-11-25]

Features

• Visualize data as numerical (hexadecimal) codes and text representation
• Codes can be also binary, octal or decimal
• Insert and overwrite edit modes
• Support for selection and clipboard actions
• Scrollbars fixed or optional, character/line or pixel precision
• Support for showing unprintable/whitespace characters
• Support for undo/redo
• Support for encoding selection
• Searching for text / hexadecimal code with matching highlighting
• Support for data sources up to exabytes
• Delta mode - Only changes are stored in memory

Web Demo

You can try BinEd library example running in browser.
Using CheerpJ by Leaning Technologies.

Limitations

• Only Swing components are currently usable

Known Issues

• In current version tab key works only if CodeArea has set: setFocusTraversalKeysEnabled(false);

Usage

Example component usage screenshot:

You can use this component for your own project using one of the following methods:

• Download library and include it with your project
• Download sources and modify it for your needs
• Import library using Maven (groupId:artifactId:version):
  org.exbin.bined:bined-swing:0.2.1
  org.exbin.auxiliary:binary_data:0.2.1

To use the component, create new instance and fill it with some data.

public class BinEdExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final JFrame frame = new JFrame("BinEd Frame");
        CodeArea codeArea = new CodeArea();
        codeArea.setContentData(new ByteArrayEditableData(new byte[]{1, 2, 3}));
        frame.add(codeArea);
        frame.setSize(1000, 600);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

Source Codes

GitHub Repository
exbin/bined-lib-java