Improvements for editing the memory contents in Memory View

[vampirehunt2]

I would like to:

• be able to directly type ASCII characters in the right side of the MemoryView (currently that part is read-only)

• be able to default to hex when changing the memory contents in the left side of MemoryView (currently I have to type 'h' after each two hex digits)

• have the currently edited memory cell automatically advance to the next address after editing the previous address, without having to click into each memory location that I want to edit. This would allow to easily modify multiple consecutive memory location.

I could potentially contribute these changes.

[maziac]

If you want you can create a PR for this. But I could imagine it gets rather complicated.

If that would help, I could also extend the "-msetb" command to support a string and e.g. a series of bytes.

For the hex input (wo 'h') I'm not so sure: currently you have to use the extension everywhere else as well. Would be inconsistent here to have a hex input. And how should the decimal input work?

[vampirehunt2]

how should the decimal input work? I would say if no base is specified AND hex digits are entered, default to hex. That would be my preferred method, however, since other people's requirements may vary, I was actually thinking of a user preference where you could set your default base for the Memory View.

[maziac]

So one would have to enter "10" for 10 or 0xA but if someone enters "F0" it would be 240 or 0xF0? Seems inconsistent to me.

[vampirehunt2]

Basically, with the preference set to hex:

• entering 10 yields 10 hex
• entering FF yields FF hex
• entering FFh yields FF hex
• entering 10d yields 10 dec
• entering XX yields and error

Similarly, with the preference set to dec:

• entering 10 yields 10 dec
• entering 10d yields 10 dec
• entering FFh yields FF hex
• entering FF yields and error
• entering XX yields and error

[maziac]

Decided not to implement.