hexeditorview

noun

UK /hɛksˈɛdɪtə vjuː/

US /hɛksˈɛdɪtər vjuː/

A special window that shows the tiny numbers and letters inside a computer file.

The programmer opened the hexeditorview to see the hidden bytes in the picture file.

SYNONYMS

hex view byte viewer binary viewer hex dump window data inspector

RELATED WORDS

hex editor byte file viewer binary data debugging tool

OTHER MEANINGS

2. A panel in a software program that displays raw data as hexadecimal numbers.

Switch to the hexeditorview tab to inspect the file header.

3. A screen mode that lets you look at and change the exact bytes of a file.

In the hexeditorview, she changed one byte to fix the broken image.

4. A tool window for checking the hexadecimal codes that make up text or media.

The hexeditorview showed that the text file used strange characters.