Macro API Breaking Changes in version 8.21

Hex Editor Neo version 8.21 generalizes a way data and search patterns are managed in a macro script. As a result, we decided to introduce a breaking change to the internal Macro API. This topic describes the full list of changes.

Removed Definitions

The following definitions have been removed:

• IPattern interface. Replaced with Pattern.Data, Pattern.Search and Pattern.Replace interfaces.
• createPattern method. Instead, construct the required pattern directly, optionally using the convertByteArray helper method.
• PC.ITextPattern interface
• PC.IBytePattern interface
• PC.IPatternRule interface. Replaced with PC.IMatchRule.
• PC.IRegExpRule interface. Replaced with PC.IMatchRule.
• FindInFilesFlags.RegularExpressionUnicode flag
• First overloads of methods IDocumentView.findAsync, IDocumentView.findAllAsync, IDocumentView.replaceAsync, IDocumentView.replaceAllAsync. Use generic versions instead.
• IDocumentView.findRegExpAsync. Use IDocumentView.findAsync method instead.
• IDocumentView.findAllRegExpAsync. Use IDocumentView.findAllAsync method instead.
• IDocumentView.replaceRegExpAsync. Use IDocumentView.replaceAsync method instead.
• IDocumentView.replaceAllRegExpAsync. Use IDocumentView.replaceAllAsync method instead.

Changed Definitions

All methods that took parameters of type IPattern now take either parameters of types Pattern.Search, Pattern.Replace or Pattern.Data, depending on context.

apiVersion now returns 0x200.

New Definitions

The following new types have been defined:

• Pattern.Bytes interface
• Pattern.Text interface
• Pattern.TextWithEncoding interface
• Pattern.Wildcard interface
• Pattern.RegExp interface
• Pattern.Data interface
• Pattern.Search interface
• Pattern.Replace interface
• PC.IMatchRule interface
• convertByteArray function