Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Why a GUI app?

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From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:51:51 +0100
"Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> I'd rather have it pop up a window of some sort as soon as a message is 
> logged - it shouldn't be logging messages every time it's run (if it 
> is, I'd consider that a bug - and, yes, this means that dissectors 
> shouldn't whine to the console merely because they see a packet they 
> don't like).

Okay, I see.

Just cosmetics, but I'd prefer that "ethereal -v" started from the 
cmdline would print to current console and not pop up a new console
to print in.

I'll check if AttachConsole() could be used in create_console() instead.
(only available in Win-XP/2003).

--gv