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by lifepillar 1934 days ago
Thank you for making HexFiend, that’s the top hex editor!

One thing that I really really like about HexFiend is that scrolling is very fast, yet precise and smooth, no matter the size of the file. Is it based on custom classes? Scrolling in macOS used to be quite ok up to several releases ago. Then it became crappy, especially in some apps (AppleScript Editor comes to my mind).

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Hex Fiend uses native Mac scrollbars, but manages its scroll position itself. In Cocoa speak it uses NSScroller but not NSScrollView.