Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] enhancement idea...
>Network Monitor puts the long name for the currently selected field in
>the status bar, although that's not the most obvious place to
>look. (It also puts the offset and length of the field in the
>status bar as well.)
>
>I forget whether it supports per-field blurbs; if it does, I don't see
>any obvious way to display them.
It does support having per-field help topics driven by the parser. If this
is supported by the parser, then the right-click menu for the field will
have an item that says "Help on Property". (NETMON calls a field a
"property" of the frame). If help is not available, the help item is
greyed.
The only built-in parser in NETMON that I've noticed using this is SMB. The
associated help file contains alot of interesting stuff about SMB. If SAMBA
didn't exist already, it would certainly have jump-started development of
it. <grin>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 7:06 PM
>To: Nathan Neulinger
>Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ethereal-dev] enhancement idea...
>
>
>> It would be nice if right-clicking or double-clicking on a
>given field
>> would give you information about that field - basically
>everything that
>> is in the hf_register_info structure.
>
>Or, if we supported other right-click operations, we could
>make that one
>of the options in a right-click menu.)
>
>Network Monitor puts the long name for the currently selected field in
>the status bar, although that's not the most obvious place to
>look. (It
>also puts the offset and length of the field in the status bar
>as well.)
>I forget whether it supports per-field blurbs; if it does, I don't see
>any obvious way to display them.
>
