Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Filtering formatted items

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:33:07 -0700
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:07:54PM -0400, Andrew C. Feren wrote:
> I noticed that I could not filter on some fields for the protocol I am
> dissecting.  Closer inspection showed that fields
> proto_tree_add_XXX_format, instead of proto_tree_add_item did not
> filter correctly.

"proto_tree_add_XXX_format()" calls "proto_tree_add_XXX()", so either

	1) "proto_tree_add_XXX()" won't let you filter either

or

	2) you're not calling "proto_tree_add_XXX_format()" correctly.