Document View Object

Document View object is implemented by an editor window. If the document has several windows opened, each of them creates a separate document view object.

Document View object implements the IDocumentView interface, which inherits from IWindow interface. You may get a reference to a document object this view is attached to using the IDocumentView.document property and you can get all views of a document using the IDocument.views property.

Other read-write view properties include:

Property	Description
insertMode	Current Insert Mode.
displayAs	Current View Type.
addressDisplayAs	Current address display type.
groupBy	Current Data Grouping mode.
columns	Current number of columns
bigEndian	Current Byte Order.
encoding	Current encoding.
codePane	Code pane visibility.
textPane	Text pane visibility.

Cursor

The view's cursor can be accessed using the read-only IDocumentView.cursor property. In addition, IDocumentView.goto can be used to execute the Edit » Go to Offset… command.

Selection

Current view's selection can be accessed using the read-only IDocumentView.selection property. The following methods may be used to control the current selection:

Method	Description
selectAll	Select all data.
selectModifiedAsync	Select all modified data.
copySelectionRangesAsync	Copy a list of selected ranges into the Clipboard.
exportSelectionRangesAsync	Export a list of selected ranges to the external file.
saveSelectionAsync	Save current selection to a file.
loadSelectionAsync	Load current selection from a file.

Clipboard

Clipboard methods allow the view to communicate with the Clipboard:

Method	Description
cutAsync	Cut selected data.
copyAsync	Copy selected data.
pasteAsync	Paste data from the Clipboard.
clearAsync	Remove selected data.

Data Modification

The following data modification methods are provided:

Method	Description
fillAsync	Fill selection with a pattern.
insert	Insert pattern.
insertFile	Insert file.
insertHexAsync	Insert encoded hex file.
encryptAsync	Encrypt selection.
decryptAsync	Decrypt selection.
modifyBits	Modify bits.

Find

The following methods may be used to search for a pattern in a document:

Method	Description
findAsync	Find a pattern.
findRegExpAsync	Find a regular expression.
findNextAsync	Find next occurrence.
findPrevAsync	Find previous occurrence.
findAllAsync	Find all occurrences of a pattern.
findAllRegExpAsync	Find all occurrences of a regular expression.

Replace

The following methods may be used to search and replace patterns:

Method	Description
replaceAsync	Replace a pattern.
replaceRegExpAsync	Replace a regular expression.
replaceAllAsync	Replace all occurrences of a pattern.
replaceAllRegExpAsync	Replace all occurrences of a regular expression.

Data Operations

The following data operations are provided:

Method	Description
bitwiseOpAsync	Bitwise data operation.
arithmeticOpAsync	Arithmetic data operation.
shiftOpAsync	Shift data operation.
caseOpAsync	Case change data operation.
reverseOpAsync	Reverse data operation.