Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Wish list: Support for table-like output

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:14:59 +0200
Hi all,
 
Some protocol dissectors would benefit from table-like support (E.g., RADIUS TLV format rendering, WBXML rendering), but there's no built-in support for this yet. One can fake tables (as I did with WBXML) by assuming a proportional font will be used at all times, but this premice is untrue when looking at Packetyzer which is based on Ethereal dissection code.
 
A simple implementation can be based on a vararg list of const char * column entries with a justify specifier per column entry.
 
Any more protocols liking/needing this table support?
 
Regards,
 
Olivier