Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] PATCH: properly handle error where no interfaces present

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From: dheitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 01:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
I see.

I guess I was just confused because the dialog popped up, but fell behind the capture dialog.

Perhaps we should require them to click 'ok' on the warning dialog before showing them the capture dialog?

-Devin

Quoting Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 11:27:16PM -0400, dheitmueller wrote:
> > Minor patch so that if there are no interfaces present when the user
> > clicks "Capture->Start", the user is told there are no interfaces
> > present, but not shown the capture dialog. 
> 
> The fact that they're shown the capture dialog is a feature, not a bug;
> that way, if they don't see any interfaces, we can, at least on UNIX,
> have them try capturing on the interfaces that they *think* they should
> be able to capture on, and see what the error is.
> 
> I suppose we could have them try tethereal or tcpdump instead, if we
> wanted to.
> 



Devin Heitmueller
Senior Software Engineer
Netilla Networks Inc
732-652-5211