Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Capture dialog ringbuffer behaviour

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:29:10 -0800
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:04:01PM +0200, Evan Pierce wrote:
> Most decent users (people capable of understanding and reading a network
> capture). However I would make an argument against using the eventviewer as
> I am sure this would add overhead to the development/porting between
> unix-like and windows operating systems.

Some, but not a lot - there'd be a routine that called "syslog()" on
UNIX and whatever the "log to Event Viewer" API is on Windows.

However:

> Possibly a dialog box with "View Error Log" under one of the menu's (maybe
> help?!) will make it even easier for people not comfortable with digging
> into folders?

...I think that's the right answer.  Show it in a text widget, so users
can more easily cut-and-paste from it into mail messages, rather than
attaching screenshots to their mail.