Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Some ideas about display filter expression

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 08:47:38 +1100
Sound really nice.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Ionescu" 
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 8:45 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Some ideas about display filter expression


> Hi all,
> 
> I was playing around with "Add expression..." from display filters and I
> think that we can do some minor improvements like:
> 
> Add at least two more buttons to the Filter Expression dialog like "and"
> and "or" besides "Accept" and "Close".
> These two buttons should do what they are supossed to do: 
> - If you press "and" you will construct another expression which will be
> logical and-ed to the previous one.
> - If you press "or" you will construct another expression which will be
> logical or-ed to the previous one.
> This way you can construct complex expressions only using the GUI.
> 
> Another thing should be another relation like "not present":
> if you select "not present" as a relation for a PROTOCOL, the result
> should  be "! PROTOCOL".
> 
> And at last, there should be a field in the bottom of the dialog box,
> just before the buttons, where you can see the expression you made so
> far.
> 
> What do you think about these improvements ?
> 
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