Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Displaying blurb in help

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From: John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 15:55:43 -0700
Might it be a good idea to set up the blurbs as tooltips?
--john

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > Attached is a quick patch to use the blurb (if available) for in
> > display filter help.  I swapped the order of the columns make the
> > display more readable (some of the blurbs are rather long).
> 
> Unfortunately, that means that the blurb is all the way on the right, so
> you see the field type before you see the field description; I find the
> type less useful than the description, so swapping the order actually
> makes it less readable for me.


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