Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] How to disable "no packets captured" dialog?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-04-01, Chris Maynard <chris.maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@...> writes:
>
>> On 2011-04-01, Guy Harris <guy@...> wrote:
>> > E.g., add a "Don't show this dialog again" checkbox.
>> 
>> I may have to put that on my list of things to work on in my spare
>> time.  I don't find that dialog helpful in the least, and it's just a
>> jarring interruption of my work-flow.
>
> Another possibility would be to display the "No packets captured!" message in
> the status bar instead, using statusbar_push_temporary_msg() in place of
> simple_dialog() in capture.c.

That would certainly be less intrusive -- though I think the absence
of captured packets itself is a pretty good indication that no packets
were captured.

-- 
Grant