Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] information is display while filter, not otherwise

[Nina Pham <nina@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> Nina Pham wrote:
>
> > Things are getting weird here. I wrote a plugin to capture one protocol. 
>
>
> (Presumably meaning "to *dissect* one protocol"; plugins make no 
> difference as to whether Ethereal can capture a protocol - it can 
> capture protocols that it cannot dissect.)
>
> > Some data I like to display on the information column wont be display 
> > when I did a filtering on a protocal name.  Data disappears again when I
> > clear the filter. Any idea will be appreciated.
>
>
> So is the information being displayed if you *are* filtering, or if 
> you *aren't* filtering?
>
> If it's being displayed only if you're filtering, your dissector is 
> probably only making the 
> "col_add_str()"/"col_add_fstr()"/"col_append_str()"/"col_append_fstr()"/etc. 
> calls to add that information only if the protocol tree argument to 
> the dissector is non-null.  It should make those calls regardless of 
> whether it's null or not.
>
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Data is displayed when I do filtering.