Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] using a bitmask without dotted presentation?

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:58:00 +0100
Patrick Fuchs wrote:
i want to work with a bitmask in a hf_register_info-element to compute and display a value smaller than 8 bit. Is it possible to do this without having the special dotted bitmaskpresentation. (->" ..010...") if i use a proto_add_yyy funktion? 
Hi!

1.) What's wrong with this presentation?
2.) Ethereal user a used to see it that way, so usability say's you should do it the same way as any other dissector do, unless you have *very good* reasons to do it different. "I don't like that presentation" is probably not a good reason on it's own :-) 

Regards, ULFL