// WinHex sample script, demonstrating various script commands.
// Can only be executed by the evaluation version if unchanged.
MessageBox "Attention: all windows will now be closed without prompting."
CloseAll
// Create a file named "abcdefgh.dat" with 123456 bytes in the root directory of drive C:.
// Will overwrite this file in case it already exists.
Create "C:\abcdefgh.dat" 123456
MessageBox "The sample file 'abcdefgh.dat' has been created."
// Write some text at offset 0.
Write "This file was created by a WinHex sample script."
// Write 16 magic hex values at offset 0x100.
Goto 0x100
Write 0x57696E48657820697320677265617421
Move -16
// Now we are back at offset 0x100.
// Open drive C:
Open C:
// To find out whether this drive has a FAT file system, search for
// the string "FAT" in the boot sector. Could also be implemented as
// Goto 0x36
// Read "A three-character variable" 3
// IfEqual "A three-character variable" "FAT"
Block 0 511
Find "FAT" BlockOnly
IfFound
// Search for the directory entry "abcdefghdat". This only works on FAT drives.
MessageBox "Drive C: has a FAT file system. Now looking for the directory entry of 'abcdefgh.dat'."
Find "abcdefghdat"
Else
// Search for the filename "abcdefgh.dat" in Unicode, as stored on NTFS drives.
MessageBox "Drive C: does not have a FAT file system. Now looking for an NTFS entry of 'abcdefgh.dat'."
Find "abcdefgh.dat" Unicode
EndIf
// Now go back to the file.
NextObj
// We know that the only other open window is the file we created,
// since initially all other possibly open windows were closed.
// Convert the file from Binary to HexASCII and back 3 times.
{
Convert Binary HexASCII
Convert HexASCII Binary
}[3]
// Now make drive C: the active window again, to show
// that the directory entry of "abcdefgh.dat" has been
// found.
NextObj
MessageBox "Sample script execution complete. The file has been converted a few times, and its directory entry has hopefully been found in the file system."
