Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FT_UINT64 patch

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:22:02 -0700 (PDT)
> Hats off to those that designed and implemented the ftypes framework,
> extremely clean and easy to use framework. well done.

That was Gilbert.

BTW, should that framework be extended to supply a "to-string" routine,
to go along with its "from-string" routine?

We might want two such routines, one to generate a string that could be
passed to the "from-string" routine, for use by, say,
"proto_alloc_dfilter_string()", and another to generate a "friendly"
string, for use by, say, "proto_item_fill_label()" - the latter might
include the value from a value_string table, or the name corresponding
to a network address, as well as the raw value, and might include
decorations such as the word "seconds" for FT_RELATIVE_TIME.