MySQL Bugs: #53660: Viewing a blob should show text next to the binary

Bug #53660	Viewing a blob should show text next to the binary
Submitted:	14 May 2010 18:36	Modified:	15 May 2010 7:34
Reporter:	Steve Narum	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: SQL Editor	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.2.21 OSS rc	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
I like the way the old tool displayed blob data in the viewer.  It showed the ASCII equivalent text for each byte in the right side of the viewer and the hex values on the left side.  I like that the new tool has the text and image panes, but the text pane is limited in that it stops on the first 0x00 byte. 

How to repeat:
  I often have blob data with a combination of embedded binary and text strings, and I would like to be able to see the text for all the strings, not just the first one before a non-printable character.  

Suggested fix:
Perhaps the Binary pane can be given the option of displaying or not displaying the ASCII as it used to.  (Perhaps it already does, but I have been unable to find the control to turn it on, so the control needs to be made more obvious, and I would even propose it should be on by default.)

Thank you for the feature request.