Vector35 / Vector35/binaryninja-api

Potential improvements to tags

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Component: UI Effort: Low Impact: Low UI: Tags
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Description

There's no way to add context information to bookmarks:

  • The data column shows ~2 characters and can't be re-sized. (Tags tab does this better.)
  • Comments don't show up in dasm preview.
  • If you bookmarked from HLIL, the dasm preview is essentially unrelated.

In projects where points of interest accumulate, there's no way to structure bookmarks. The tab can't be sorted by name or location, filtered, searched, etc. The tab is just a filtered subset of the Tags tab, but with less information shown.

Tags seem like a decent interface between automation and a human navigating points of interest. If bookmarks are tags but exclusively for human use, adding more structure and context would help. Maybe not to the extent of Ghidra's Program Trees, which allow program fragments to be re-arranged arbitrarily into a new BinaryView, but at least enough to support more bookmarks than you can count on your thumbs.

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Research direction

The issue mentions the bookmarks and Tags tabs, data-column sizing, comments, dasm previews, HLIL bookmarks, and sorting or filtering, but names no files or tests. Start by mapping the existing bookmark and tag behavior, then narrow the requested improvements into an agreed scope. Done should be defined by that scope and its corresponding UI behavior.

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Assessment

Domain
reverse-engineering
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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