Personally, I really like the way autoscroll works now. But Ulf makes a
good suggestion in that it may also be nice to stop the autoscroll if
you click on a packet of interest. Then resume the same way as now.
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[mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:17 PM
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark 0.99.7pre2 is now available
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Jim Young schrieb:
>> I think autoscroll behavior was changed (augmented?).
>>
>> My observation is that auto-scrolling now stops if you scroll UP in
the
>> packet summary pane. You can restore auto-scrolling by simply
scrolling
>> to the bottom-most (i.e. most recent) item of the summary pane.
>>
>> You can also click on the "Go to first packet" and "Go to the last
packet"
>> toolbar buttons to accomplish same.
>>
> Ah, at least that explains what happens.
This was added by one of the guys here at CACE, and checked in in
r22277. It's
intended to let you go back and look at any interesting traffic that
might be
flying past during a live capture by simply grabbing the scroll bar.
Modern
terminal programs have this behavior, e.g. when PuTTY's "Reset
scrollback on
display activity" option is disabled.
> So two questions:
>
> - should the autoscroll mode be disabled (e.g. displayed by the
toolbar
> icon) when scrolling is disabled? Having both a "visible" criteria
> (autoscroll icon) and an "invisible" (position of scrollbar) sounds
not
> very intuitive to me - but I may be wrong here
How is the scrollbar position "invisible"? If you're at the bottom, then
autoscroll is enabled. If you're not, then autoscroll is disabled. At
any rate,
the toolbar icon should reflect the autoscroll state. We'll work on a
fix.
> - should "go to last packet" turn the autoscroll mode back on
automatically?
If we want to be consistent with PuTTY, Terminal.app, gnome-terminal,
and other
applications then the answer is "yes."
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