Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to packet-frame.c for Mate access

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:32:30 -0800
Lars Roland wrote:
BTW, no one has tried to put a tap into a plugin yet. The main reason is that the plugin should not contain any GTK dependency, because tethereal will use it, too.
...as might the native Windows version of Ethereal on which Gerald is working, and other possible non-GTK versions in the future.
However I guess your plugin doesn't have a gtk dependency, because you use the packet list to display the results.
At some point it'd be useful to allow some plugins to be written without any UI code, e.g. having them specify a table and fill that in, which would be printed by Tethereal and displayed by Ethereal. Those could also be made plugins if the plugin mechanism were extended to support taps as well as dissectors.