Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Saving all packets between the first and the l ast marked pac

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:24:12 -0800
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:27:53PM +0100, Biot Olivier wrote:
> Can we select more than one packet in the GUI?

The underlying widget supports it, but...

> IMHO we can only do this by
> having pop-up windows with individual packets being displayed.

...that's the issue - which one of them has its dissection displayed?

> Range between first and last marked packet is only possible when at least 2
> packets have been marked.

The range includes the packets themselves, so I *guess* you could argue
that if only one packet is marked, it's both the first and last marked
packet.

> Maybe we can group functionality based on applying the dfilter or not:
> 
> +-- Select packets to be %s ------------------+
> | (*) all packets                             |
> | ( ) selected packets                        |
> | ( ) marked packets                          |
> | ( ) range from first to last marked packet  |
> + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +
> | [x] apply display filter on packet range    |
> +---------------------------------------------+
> where %s is either printed or saved, (*) is the default selected radio
> button of the radio button group, and [x] represents a selected check box.

That might be a cleaner way to handle that.

> PS in Dutch-speaking Belgium, it is customary to write last name first (as
> does our corporate Exchange server). People call me Olivier :)

I suspected as much - although I've also seen that from sites in
French-speaking regions (both French and Quebecois), as well as Japan.

And then, of course, there's

	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071733/

and, as I think I remember,

	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077165/

(neither of which I've seen, unfortunately).