Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Byte order, hf_register_info and value displayed

["Gilbert Ramirez" <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The last argument of proto_tree_add_item() tells Wireshark the byte
order (endianness)... TRUE for little endian, FALSE for big endian.

--gilbert

On 12/4/06, Hal Lander <hal_lander@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In hf_register_info I declare a field to be FT_UINT16.
> Then I use "proto_tree_add_item" to put it on the tree.
>
> In the lower (3rd) pane Wireshark dispalys the two bytes in hex as;
> 24 00
>
> In the middle (2nd) pane it displays the value of the field as 9216 when
> what I was wanting to see was 36.
>
> How do I get Wireshark to use the bytes in the reverse order before
> calculating the unsigned 16 bit integer to display?
>
> TIA
> Hal
>
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