Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] static vs dynamic column width

[phil_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I was hoping that the proposal of going back to static width columns would die out after the messages reporting problems with the dynamic column code and the corrections were posted.  However, it didn't, and we've now reverted to the static column width.

I'd like to propose that we keep the ability to size the column based on the longest string within that column.  This is VERY useful for long "Info" strings - what I had been doing before was just setting the display width to the maximum size of the character string (which is MUCH larger than the other columns (in my modified version, which nobody has expressed an interest in).  It's very nice to have the horizontal scroll bar reflect the actual width of the window based on the data in the columns.


Thanks,

Phil Techau

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