[UI8] UI8Snapshot

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[UI8] UI8Snapshot

By clicking

icon in UI8Toolbar Snapshot Inspector is opened.

Uploaded Image: UI8Snapshot.png

after a few moments you will see the collected snapshot

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The Snapshot Inspector aims to capture, save and dump the actual snapshot of S8 system.
Each instance of this tool will contain a particular snapshot. You can work as usual until you decide to do a capture in diferent ways: Doing the capture in tool, saving capture in a external file or dumping the snapshot contents in other window.

	Save action.	Saves the captured snapshot contents in the default image file.
	Save as action.	Saves the captured snapshot contents in a user defined file.
	New window action.	Dump the captured snapshot contents in a external window.
	Edit action.	Dump the captured snapshot contents in the code area of tool.
	Edit startUp action.	Allows to manipulate index.html for including user snapshots in startup time.
	Connect action.	Let UI8Sanpshot be binded to a remote system.

The snapshot inspector allow you to see and select binary fragments.

Uploaded Image: UI8Snapshot3.png

Using multiple selection you could do a raw operational extraction of specific binary fragments.

Features

Capture/Save/Dump snapshot of the current system
Let the user edit (as text) a snapshot of the system.
Let the user explore and extract snapshot fragments of the system.
Use S8BinaryParser framework to load binary contents (See S8BinaryParser module under s8/tools)

Hierarchy

UI8Snapshot inherits from [UI8] UI8ToolApplication.

Events

UI8Snapshot can trigger the following events (besides the ones inherited from its superclass):

needsCodePane

References

NTH & feature requests

boot from snapshot... - let the user boot a new S8 system from a snapshot contents/file/clipboard (in a new window?)
inspect snapshot... - (drop snapshot.js file) open an UI to compare read snapshot to current system
load snapshot... - let the user load an external snapshot file (as text)