Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] static vs dynamic column width

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:24:11 -0700 (PDT)
> > I assume by "auto-resizing while reading a captured file" he means
> > "changing the column sizes as each packet is read in" - I don't *think*
> > it was doing that when it auto-sized the columns; was it?
> 
> Yes it was (each time the width was greater).

Really?  The code froze the CList while reading the file in, and only
did the "gtk_clist_set_column_width()" calls and unfroze the CList after
the file had been read in; I don't ever remember seeing the list change
while the file was being read in.

In fact, I just read in a large capture file with Ethereal 0.6.3; as the
progress bar was moving, the screen stayed the same - no packets were
displayed, and no column widths changed - and the packets displayed and
the column widths changed only when the file was completely read in, so
it's not changing the column sizes as each packet is read in.