Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] I've added preview information to the open and merge dialog boxes

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Hi List!
>
> As I have a lot of capture files around, I often wanted to have some 
> information about the capture files, while browsing the open / merge 
> dialog.
>
> I've added a feature to scan the currently seleted file for file 
> format, length, number of packets, ... and show this information in 
> the dialog. This makes browsing the files a lot easier IMHO.
>
> As this scans the whole file for the number of packets / timestamps 
> and such, it might be too slow for very large capture files, so we 
> might need an option to switch off this feature or only show details 
> when capture file is not too long.
>
> Are there other file informations, which should be shown in the dialogs?
>
> Hopefully this feature will be helpful for others too.
>
> Regards, ULFL
As my mail seems to get lost somewhere on the web, resending it...

Regards, ULFL