Display the actual code in Notepad?

Good evening,

To do what you want, you need a hexadecimal editor.
You have NotePad++ (free) that can do that
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
But you need to know what you're doing, when in doubt, work on a copy!

eric

I believe it's time to take your first serious programming courses (that is to say, let's forget VB, JavaScript, and the like).
What you're looking for is to display the source code of the program from the program files. However, in most advanced languages (which are used to create complex and fast programs), this source code written by the programmer has been COMPILED by the compiler of said language.
It is therefore absolutely not accessible (except with a lot of tricks): and fortunately, because that's how publishers jealously guard the trade secrets of the software they sell (a bit like a car that one couldn't open the hood).

To experiment with the tinkering of the source code, you need to:
* choose/install an "open source" software, or free software (a less explicit term, let's agree)
* download the source code separately and read it (there's no problem there, it's a text file, sorry, tons of text files if you took OpenOffice or Gimp)
* install a compiler for the used language and use it to create an alternative version of the program
* DEBUG (you'll quickly understand this term)

Finally, a response. Thank you for the link, but I already have this software. Now what I need to know is how to set up the hex editor with Notepad? But are you sure it's going to show the actual code?

I found it, but I don't think it's that because I come across numbers below "address" and then I have +0 +1 +2 etc... So it can't be that since I still can't modify my file, do you not know?

No, I've looked everywhere but there's no way to display the actual code in hexadecimal; it just removes the black rectangles and converts them into numbers, that's all, I'm not any further along, please help me :)

You need to click on the H tool to switch to hex.
On the left side of the window, the bytes of your file in hex, on the right side the corresponding ASCII code if it exists.
You can edit on both sides
But if you're surprised to find numbers with a hex editor, it's best to just forget about it...
eric

Yes, but there must be a way to get the real code, that is to say, code with text that we can understand and therefore modify. It's not impossible since there are those who modify an entire game by modifying just this kind of file.

Who tells you that the texts were entered exactly as they are in the program??
They may not be directly readable or may be placed in another file.

Hi, can you please reply to the others because I'm really interested too...

I was just looking for how to switch to hex mode in Notepad++??? Where is the H mode? Is there a way to do some advanced stuff, and they’ve hidden this hexadecimal mode. Do you need a plugin?

Thanks

To read the lines of code and thus be able to modify them, you need to use Eclipse software.
Otherwise, I was wondering, when you want to create a web page and you have prepared your code in Notepad, how can you read it before putting it online, with which software???
Thank you in advance for the answers.
Nicolas

It's good, I found the right plugin to install; it's strange that it's not included in the default installation.

you type alt+4breakerba enter