Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Implemented rudimentary Drag and Drop support.

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

I've just finished the implementation of having Ethereal as a drop 
target for drag and drop.

On Win32 this enables the following:

Drag a file in the explorer and drop it on the Ethereal window, this 
will load the capture file (just as choosen by the file selection).

It will just act like the other "open file" ways:
-if an unsaved file already exists, a dialog pops up ("Do you want to 
save...") asking to save first
-the usual dialogs will appear, when the file could not be loaded
-the file will be added to the recent files list (if it could be loaded 
without errors)

If more than one file is dropped into the Ethereal window, only the 
first one will be tried to load!


Although I just used plain GTK mechanisms (working on win32 both GTK 
version 1 and 2),
it might not be working on other platforms.
Especially the string format of the dragged target filename might differ 
on the various platforms.


It's just working fine on my WinXP machine, please report problems on 
other platforms.

Regards, ULFL