Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] Capture dialog box defaults to previous # of packets captured
--- On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>If "cf.count" is not zero, the capture dialog box will put, as the two
>items in the combo box for the capture count, "0 (Infinite)" and the
>value of "cf.count"; it puts the value of "cf.count" first, so that's
>what the combo box gets initialized to.
>
>Is it a feature that the combo box for the capture count has the number
>of packets captured in the previous capture as one of its options? (I
>don't consider it a feature that it *defaults* to that value, as I've
>*never* wanted that, and it often means my capture stops before the
>packets I wanted to see.)
I never considered it useful. I thought there might be some particular reason
for it, but looking at it, it might be just the way it happened.
>
>If not, perhaps we should remove that.
>
>If so, we should probably put "0 (Infinite)" *first* in the combo box
>list, so that it defaults to that.
I vote for 0 as the default. That way if someone has a habit of doing 1000 at
a time or whatever, the number stays in the list.
>
--john
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