The new version of 010 Editor was launched today by SweetScape Software. The powerful editor for Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT/Me/98 is able to modify any binary file, drive or process on your computer. 010 Editor's innovative Binary Templates technology allows you to understand all the 1's and 0's and takes the mystery out of binary file formats.

    010 Editor is a professional-grade hex editor developed to quickly and easily edit any binary file or drive. It has an easy-to-use interface with a whole range of hex editing tools. Binary information, consisting only of 1's and 0's, and has long been difficult to edit. With the 010 Editor's Binary Templates technology binary data can be visualized and modified in an simple, direct fashion. The program allows Binary Templates to be distributed among its users and even offers an online, growing repository of Binary Templates that been developed by users of the software. The repository contains templates for file formats such as AVI, BMP, GIF, PAL, RAR, TIF, WAV, ZIP, plus many more. When a Binary Templates is run on a file, the file is parsed into a hierarchical data structure that is presented to the user for easy viewing and modification.

    010 Editor offers a professional hex editor capable of editing any file of any size quickly and easily. Processes, hard drives, floppy drives, flash drives, CD-ROMs, etc. can be seen and edited with 010 Editor as well. The software offers a standard Cut, Copy, and Paste functionality plus powerful Find capabilities, Binary Comparisons, advanced Check Sum/Hash algorithms, Histograms, and other analysis utilities. The editor can even export data in a large number of formats such as HTML and RTF. In addition most of the tasks can be automated using 010 Editor's advanced scripting engine, which uses a language very similar to C/C++.

    The Binary Templates are easy to write, and thatswhy they are growing fast in popularity. By definition a Binary Template is a text file that contains what appears to be standard C/C++ structures, but the structures may contain conditional statements such as 'if', 'for', 'while', 'switch' which offer the template the flexibility required to parse virtually any binary file format. They also include support for bitfields, endianness, recursive structures, complex functions, plus much more.

The Editor is available now at their web site http://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/.