Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Copy selected text from frame(s) to clipboard

["Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mats Nielsen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I often hear my collegues complain about that it not is possible to mark some text
>from any of the frame-list, frame-content or frame-content-hex panes and then copy it to clipboard.
>They use it when they want to comment a specific part of a trace in a mails.
>


I use to print the frame (or sometimes the complete capture) to a text file by using the the menu item "Mark Frame" and then "File/Print... Format: (x) Plain Text , Print to: (x) File,  (x) Print detail, (x) Print hex data, (x) Suppress unmarked frames" and select a file name.

This method is working, but is a bit annoying.
A "Print summary" can also be very useful sometimes.

I have been thinking about implementing a "File/Print Packet to File" that prints the current packet to a specific file
with detailed data and hex data. The file name should be configurable from settings.
However I have not looked on that part of the code yet to see how much work it is to implement this and there are
some other things I'm working on right now.