Binary Workbench 0.2.1 — Windows Preview

Binary Workbench 0.2.1 — Windows Preview

This update adds a unified theme editor while preserving the workspace, geometry, texture and scripting tools introduced in 0.2.0.

Theme editor

Open Other Tools > Settings > Appearance > Themes.

• Color groups: Backgrounds, Text, Accent & Highlights, Borders & Separators, and Tool Colors.
• Live preview for controls, hex values, 3D/UV geometry, scripting and calculator samples. Edits stay in the preview until Apply or OK.
• Create, duplicate, rename and delete custom themes. Included Dark, Light and System themes remain read-only.
• Per-element Use theme default, group resets, optional input-field backgrounds and control borders.
• Versioned .bwtheme JSON import/export with validation. Personal themes persist independently of upgrades.
• Shared colors for the application palette, Hex Viewer bytes/text/offsets/modified bytes, 3D/UV graphics, scripting/console surfaces and text, and calculator function groups.
• Custom themes based on System follow operating-system appearance changes. Explicit byte-formatting rules and local graphics overrides retain priority.
• Cancel preserves the last applied settings. Built-in themes continue to work with existing profiles.

See Theme editor documentation for the supported controls and file format. Syntax-color categories, image checkerboard colors and result/status-specific color groups remain future additions.

Download and run

Download BinaryWorkbench-0.2.1-windows-x64.zip, extract the entire ZIP and run binary_workbench.exe. Keep all DLLs and bundled subfolders beside it. GitHub's automatically generated source archives are not the runnable Windows application.

Windows 10/11 x64. The portable package includes Qt, Python and its standard library, the Vulkan loader and Visual C++ runtime files. Vulkan 3D needs a compatible graphics driver. The build is unsigned. C++ scripting requires a local compatible compiler.

Validation

43 reader tests and 39 interface tests pass; one optional native graphics test is skipped by the automated suite. Theme lifecycle, inheritance, import/export, preview isolation, Apply/Cancel and graphics-only color updates are covered. The editor layout was visually checked with Windows fonts.

Packaging validates image handlers, bundled Python and script execution with development Qt/Python paths removed. Separate clean-machine Windows validation remains pending. Console-format, model-export and other limitations described in the README still apply.

The release includes a SHA-256 checksum. Existing personal panel layouts and preferences are preserved.

Built from commit fd0ca7993e85c5d1cae2a3e3382c5914ed0a50e9.