Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] enhancement idea...
> An ethereal right-click on a proto_tree item should pop up a menu providing
> at least:
>
> 1. Match selected.
> 2. Copy field abbreviation to X selection ("clipboard")
> 3. Copy match selected filter to X selection
> 4. Add as column (see below)
> 5. Provide the blurb for that field, if it's non-empty.
>
> By #4, I'd like to to be able to add a column to the packet clist
> which shows the value of a field for every packet. If the field does not
> exist for that packet, then the column cell is empty, of course. For
> example, you could set a column to say, ip.frag_offset, and see that
> number in a column for each packet.
I like that idea!
For #5, I was thinking more of displaying EVERYTHING about that field,
not just the blurb - for example, the abbreviation - cause right now,
you can't find that out unless you read the docs.
On the right click idea, some other useful right click operations on the
packet list:
follow stream
colorize -> submenu with various colors, how it colorizes depends on
what column you click on - i.e. if you right click on the IP src address
column, the colorize option would match all packets that had that ip src
address, etc.
print packet
print stream (implicit follow)
? move column left
? move column right (wish that clist did this by dragging the column
titles)
? drop column
? add column - bring up the dialog with the column list
-- Nathan
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