Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] display filters and subtrees

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From: Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:33:14 -0600
Hi,

For GIOP users (and others I am sure), it would be nice to
be able to have searchable fields in subtrees and sub-subtrees
etc.

This is especially important in GIOP as I want to preserve 
the data structure layout (eg: unions within structs). I do not
want to have to flatten out all the data structures to make 
them searchable. I saw an old post from Gilbert on such matters

<qoute>
      Because of the way the display filter routines work,
      a protocol that is placed in a subtree is not searchable.
      This is because the display filter routines expect protocols
      to be at the "top level" of the protocol tree. I could fix this,
      or I could keep this as a feature. For example, in this
</quote>

Has this changed or are there other mechanisms planned for
this.

An Example is an IOR subtree in GIOP. These can be quite large data
structures, and I like having it as a subtree that is collapsed
in the GUI. I just need to be able to search these subtree's
also.


Cheers / Frank


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