Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Browse field in the preferences

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 5, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Aurélien Decagny wrote:

> For the field part, you are right. But my question was more about  
> how to
> make easily the browse button, so that the user don't need to write  
> all
> the path for the data. And also how to get this path.

Currently, there is no way to do that in Wireshark; you can create a  
string preference, but the user would have to type the path in.

At some point, we should add a "path name" preference type, which  
would be like a string preference, except that it would have a browse  
button allowing the user to browse for a path name.

> I also have another question, which has no link with the first one,  
> but
> I won't create a new thread just for it: do you know how to get the
> number of the No. column of Wireshark? (there should be a variable,  
> but
> I can't find the name of this one...)

In a dissector, pinfo->fd->num (where pinfo is the "packet_info *"  
second argument to the dissector) will give you the frame number of  
the frame currently being dissected.