Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] extra info in TCP tree item in proto tree looks ugly

[Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > One other way of doing this that might be preferable would be to have the
> > COL_INFO be stackable, where you could click on that element, and have it
> > show the COL_INFO information for all the previous layers.
> 
> A Sniffer screenshot I saw in a Sniffer manual seems to imply that it
> can be set up to display the equivalent of COL_INFO for all layers in a
> frame, as well as displaying just the top-level COL_INFO equivalent.

'all layers' would be fine (and indeed, that is how the sniffer displays
it), it just looks really bad with it being just the one layer. The
other problem it didn't have horizontal scroll bars, which meant the
text was just truncated. 

Perhaps some standard method should be to retrieve the COL_INFO text,
and set the layers extra-info to be that same text. That would yield the
most consistent appearance.

-- Nathan

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