Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] The Thing - check in the files ?

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

would it be maningful to you app to show the data in a different
window with a different tree?
i have soon to be checked in an embryo for a separate tree/window for
expert analysis data...
A tree that you define completely yourself?




On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 03:12:35 +0100, LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hm    so you also want to insert stuff in the dissect pane tree?
> 
> Yes, that's the thing's purpose, to have a tree that contains
> information from other frames so It can be used, for example, to
> filter all packets of a call knowing just the calling number.
> 
> If I call proto_item_add_xxx from the tap listener it just crashes.
> 
> I have to call  "thing_tree()" ( the one that calls
> proto_item_add_xxx) from somewhere else. AFAIK I would need either a
> hook that calls the dissector after every one else (preety much what I
> used to do in packet.c )
> 
> attached you'll find the least intrusive way I found to do it.
> 
> I'd like not to touch any files other than mine but I'm not able.
> 
> Luis
> 
> 
> >
> > Is there no way to go from  an EDT entry into an proto_item *   so you
> > can just do a proto_item_add_xxx()     ?
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:00:57 +0100, LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I did, at least one part of it...
> > >
> > > I changed do_thing to be a tap listener, it imports the fields and it
> > > does its job.
> > > I did delete file.c and packet.c and restored them from svn.
> > >
> > > part 1 is solved...
> > >
> > > part 2 is:
> > > just calling thing_tree() from the tap against edt->tree did not realy work.
> > >
> > > Now the issue bocomes: how do I get the thing's tree into the tree?
> > >
> > > Unfortunatelly I have thought no viable way but to call it from
> > > somewhere where it will gets actually called every time the tree has
> > > to be displayed. That is either packet.c or packet-frame.c, am I
> > > wrong?
> > >
> > > even in the case I'm not wrong and we need to meke it somehow
> > > intrusive, there's a huge progress, now the "intrusion" needed is no
> > > more than five lines of code in one of those files.
> > >
> > > Luis
> > >
> >
> 
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