Creating a Binary Message From Hex Data

A new message can be created by using text from a Hexadecimal dump file or entering Hex byte codes directly.

1. Click the File option from the File Operations tool bar.

2. Select the New Message > Hex Message option to open a Hex Editor (Ctrl + H for a shortcut):

3. The Message Parameters Dialog box will be displayed, allowing encoding rules to be selected:

4. The cursor will be positioned at the first byte in the Hex View display:

From here, hexadecimal characters can either be typed in directly or pasted from the clipboard. Paste can be done by either selecting the Edit->Paste menu command or using the Ctrl-V hot key.

When entering hexadecimal data, only valid hex characters [A-Za-z0-9] will be accepted.

4. To update the Tree View display with the newly added hex data, select the View->Refresh menu command, press the F5 hot key, or click on the Refresh tool bar button:

Current project information will be used if a project is currently open. In this case, the message type (BER/DER or PER) and the schema information will be used to attempt to decode the converted binary data.