I initially thought I'd found a bug, but searching the forums I found this thread, so I thought I should bump it up and add my own comment.
Like MrSpock I also got confused by PSPad when I switch from text to hex and back to text mode. The file I chose had binary zeros in the first few bytes. When this file is opened as text PSPad shows many lines of content, with a thin rectangle for the binary zeros, switch to hex and the screen displays no file content - as if the file is empty. Try and switch back to text and the screen still show no content? When I open the same file as Hex (from the context menu) the hex image of the file show the content I expect. However when I try to switch to view text mode the option is disabled? Fair enough I suppose as the fie was opened in hex, but as the user and owner of the file I wanted to see what valid text there was in it. I have AutoDetectBinary=0 in the program settings if that affects this behaviour. I agree with MrSpock that doing away with "partial hex mode" would be a good idea, as I was expecting to be able to flip flop my view of the file between text and hex. I understand that this can be dangerous, and is possibly more so in the Unicode world. If you don't want to do away with partial hex mode, how about some hint or warning message suggesting to the user that re-opening as hex would be a better way to edit/view the file when they try to switch such a file into hex mode? -- RJW <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,46580,48342> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
