HexInspector

Overview

HexInspector is an extension for Visual Studio Code that provides fast and easy way to peek other forms of an input value. The extension supports many different input/output formats and both little/big endianness. See more in Settings section below. The order of displayed formats can be also customized.

Extension is available on the Marketplace.

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Settings

Default values are bolded.

• hexinspector.inputDataTypes defines which data types trigger the hover.

  Indentifier	Description
  "binary"	Token is recognized if it starts with 0b and then contains only 0 and 1.
  "decimal"	Token is recognized if it contains only digits.
  "hexadecimal"	Token is recognized if it starts with 0x or # and then contains only 0-9,a-f.

• hexinspector.hoverContent defines which data types are displayed on a hover.

  Indentifier	Description
  "ascii"	Sequence of ASCII characters.
  "binary"	Binary nuber with leading zeros.
  "bits set"	List of set bits.
  "decimal"	Decimal number as unsigned/signed. Signed is displayed only if the highest bit is set.
  "float16"	Float16 (IEEE 754). Displayed only if a value has at most 2 bytes.
  "float32"	Float16 (IEEE 754). Displayed only if a value has at most 4 bytes.
  "float64"	Float16 (IEEE 754). Displayed only if a value has at most 8 bytes.
  "hexadecimal"	Hexadecimal number with leading zeros.
  "size"	Size with 3 decimal places (if a unit is bigger than byte).

• hexinspector.endianness | Indentifier | Description | |----------------|---------------| | little | Little Endian | | big | Big Endian |

License

MIT