Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] additions to wireshark GUI

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:18 AM, יוני תובל wrote:

> i have created a dissector dll . now , i want to add a button to the  
> wireshark GUI
> is it possible to make changes to the GUI through the dissector Code  
> (in the packet-xxx file)  ?

The only GUI changes that can be made from a dissector are changes to  
the preferences GUI - and that's done by registering preferences,  
which show up in the GUI; general changes to the GUI cannot be made  
from a dissector.

> i mean , does Wireshark  expose a GUI API ?

Some amount of GUI is exposed through the Lua interpreter in versions  
of Wireshark that have the Lua interpreter built in.

> i dont what to make the changes in the source code and compile  
> wireshark .
> Does wire shark enable developers to add "GUI plugins " of some sort ?

You could make a "tap" plugin, for example, for statistics.

What do you want the button to do?