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

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From: John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:54:03 -0700
Well then maybe *I* misunderstood.  Sorry.
--john

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > You can specify the color for any packets for which you can write a
> > filter so you could use foo.error==real_bad or whatever. All you need to
> > do is have a field that can be filtered on, then specify a color filter
> > (Display|Colorize Display) for it.
> 
> Perhaps I misread his original message, but, although he may want to set
> the color on particular packets in the packet list pane as well, in his
> original message it sounded as if he wanted to color particular *items*
> in the *protocol tree* pane; the existing color filter mechanism won't
> do that.

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