User interface feedback

[orhun]

Original discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/1ft0094/comment/lpsch5v/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

• The main menu is the most obvious: sure ascii art is cute but you can't see the file information without scrolling, same for the libraries, and in many cases you can't even see the entire path for the libraries. 90% of the screen space is unused.

• For the Static tab, having to scroll to see the file headers is annoying. But more importantly consider how much space on the screen is taken by borders and space between borders. Maximum 60% of your window is actually showing any useful information. And that contributes to having tiny windows showing only a fraction of the information you're looking for, making any search more difficult.

• For the same reason the strings tab feels the most usable, but even there you have at least 10 lines that are taken by the header, footer and blank space and borders.

• The hexdump is another good example of this: borders inflate the size required to display any information to the point where more than half the screen is taken by number representations. I'm not saying that having them isn't useful, but it's certainly not useful all the time (for once) and certainly not more useful than the actual hexdump which is stuck on a mere 8 lines for example in your video. Viewing large portions of hexdumps at once is useful to identify patterns and get a feel of what you're looking at, something I do much more often than wondering what the octal representation of the current byte is (and why have a "hexadecimal" field as well by the way when you have the exact same info in the hexdump? That's what the hexdump is about!). Frankly, just by presenting the same info without borders you could make the hexdump twice as big. (cc. @ndd7xv as the author of heh)