From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 29 October 2003 19:48
> On Oct 29, 2003, at 9:59 AM, Ian Schorr wrote:
> > Guy Harris wrote:
> >
> >> OK, I've checked in a change to make all tap menu items that don't
> >> have routines to indicate whether they should be enabled
> (currently,
> >> no tap menu item does) always enabled.
> >
> > Hmmm... Did that include the Colorize Display option?
>
> No - that's not a tap.
>
> > I notice it's still being greyed out, though it would be
> great if we
> > could manage color filters prior to opening a trace, partly for
> > similar reasons as those that Ronnie has suggested before.
>
> Perhaps we should have a "Color Filters..." item in the Edit menu.
I would like to be able to edit color filters without loading a capture,
especially since the import/export stuff means that you might load Ethereal
just to manage filter sets.
> (That also raises, in yet another form, the "default vs.
> current" issue
> - you might want a set of saved color filters applied to all your
> captures, but you might also want to change the color filters for the
> current capture and not save them.)
I wont have any time to work on it for a bit. I'm putting my energies into
http://microautocode.sourceforge.net
You get almost the effect you are looking for with the existing color
filters dialog by hitting the right buttons, but it's broken and entirely
non-obvious. It's currently impossible to limit changes to the current
capture, which is what the placement in the Display menu implies.
(The code needs to copy the color filters and only edit the copy. The GTK2+
stuff is almost ready for this but the GTK1+ stuff would have to do it a
different way.)
If you want two different dialogs for Edit> and Display> functions, why not
put the one dialog in both places for now, and someone can revisit it later.
If you want it in one place, my vote's for Edit>.
--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."
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