Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal highighting

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From: David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:24:10 -0600
On Friday, 02 Nov 2001, Guy Harris wrote:
> > That sounds too specific.
> 
> In what fashion is it too specific?

Sorry, I was a little too terse.  The XML design team has been planning on
adding symantic packet definitions to the Diameter XML dictionary.  Ethereal
can make use of those definitions to be able to tell if a packet does not
contain the proper information.  That's one kind of error.  There can also
be errors in the packet formation itself.  That's another kind of error.  
And finally, and lower levels there are retransmissions, data errors, etc.

So, having a single error flag is a bit too specific to a single problem,
in my opinion.  There needs to be a better way to be able to indicate errors,
perhaps some kind of scale.  (CRITICAL, ALERT, WARNING, etc)

So, that's why I drifted naturally to colors . . .

> 
> > Perhaps you could mark erroneous data red?
> 
> Or perhaps we could allow users to specify foreground and background
> colors for them?

Yup.  Sounds like something to play with.


-Dave