Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Problems with "Save Highlighted Data..."

[Kai Krüger <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I was trying to use the "Save Highlighted Data..." feature using todays 
CVS code, however it didn't write the specified file to disk.  Looking 
at the source, the problem seems to be in gtk/proto_draw.c in the 
function savehex_save_clicked_cb(). The file string was always empty, 
even though a file was specified in the dialog.
Moving the gtk_wiget_destroy(GTK_WIGET(savehex_dlg)) to the end of the 
function, after the open() call solved the problem for me. I suspect, 
that the gtk_wiget_destroy also frees the memory of the file string and 
the operations on the file string after the call to gtk_wiget_destroy 
therefore always failed.

If wanted, I can supply a patch that moves the gtk_wiget_destroy to the 
end of the function. However as I'm neither familiar with ethereal nor 
GTK coding (styles) I don't know if this is the correct way to fix the 
problem

Thanks,
Kai

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