Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Capture dialog: Next file every X megabyte cannot be unchecke
From: Ulf Lamping
| Olivier Biot wrote:
|
| >Hi list,
| >
| >I've been playing with the new capture dialog, and I realized you
| >cannot *uncheck* the "Next file every [size] [units]" option.
|
| It was required to have this option checked already before my
changes.
I didn't realize this.
| However: it *is* required to have some sort of "Next file every"
setting
| checked, otherwise the "Use multiple files" setting would make no
sense,
| when only one file is generated.
|
| Another solution would be to do no default setting for any of the
"Next
| file every" settings, and do some more advanced testing when the
"OK"
| button was pressed.
Unless we use some multi-radio-button (I don't remember the correct
name for it) where at least one of the buttons must be checked. The
simplest "logic" would then be a tooltip telling the end-user that
when using multiple files, at least one "next file" condition must be
present.
| Although I'm not convinced that this solution would be much more
| intuitive :-(
|
| >Additionally I have seen that it is possible today to specify to
use 2
| >files in the ring buffer and to stop capturing after 3 files. I
think
| >this may be an interesting feature, although it requires the user
to
| >think about it :).
| >
| >
| I see your concerns, but I don't see a simply way to solve this.
This is
| the most intuitive way I found for this topic.
I personally like it, it's not really a concern, but more a question:
is the code implemented in such a way that in the given example
capturing stops when switching for the 4th time to another capture
file?
Regards,
Olivier
