Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Usability feature, protocol tree

[Ben Fowler <wapdev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:39 AM 5/26/00, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Is there a way to make the protocol tree selection persist across
> > different packet selections?

If such a feature were implemented, I would use it for exactly the
reason that the OP gave

> Part of the problem would be coming up with a definition of "persist"
> that can be implemented by Ethereal, without use of the Read User's Mind
> instruction, which is not present on most processors. :-)
>
> A line in a protocol tree might be associated with a filterable field;
> if the new packet has exactly one instance of that field, we could
> probably re-select it, but if it has more than one of them, which one
> should it pick?
>
> In addition, a line in a protocol tree might *not* be associated with a
> filterable field; unless the current line has a field associated with
> it, there's no way for Ethereal to know which line in the new packet's
> protocol tree would correspond to the selected line in the old packet.

Would this problem be smaller if the feature was only operational for
packets of the same type.

Ben
--
Leedsnet - The information resource for Leeds and the West Riding
< URL:http://www.leedsnet.com/mobile/ >