Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What is "File->Save Highlighted" menu item for?

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:40:08 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:43:07AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > >OK, the current label does not indicate that only the highlighted packet 
> > >data is saved ... Perhaps we want Highlighted Packet Data or something 
> > >like that.
> > >
> > I would tend to call it "Selected", not "Highlighted".
> > 
> > Or is there a reason to use the term "Highlighted" that I just don't see?
> 
> What's written is the field you've currently selected in the protocol
> tree pane.  If, for example, you happen to select some text in the hex
> pane, that doesn't affect what gets written (for one thing, you can
> select stuff that's not on byte boundaries, or that crosses between the
> hex dump and ASCII dump portion).

I wanted to avoid confusion with other things that we do, like packet 
marking etc.

Since this facility saves the bytes associated with a select field or 
highlighted field or a subtree or item, perhaps it is better if we use the 
label

   Highlighted field

or 

   Selected field

?

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com