Javier Acuña wrote:
>Hello Guy
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>As you may recall, I sent a patch to allow Ethereal to read from a socket. I claimed that I managed to get all working OK, but I didn't, I'm sorry about that.
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>What my patch adds, is two small text input areas where the user can provide some "IP address" and port number in the 'Capture Options' dialog.
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>The problem is that those values are never added by "capture_opts_add_opt" (no wonder, since I didn't wrote any code there to do that), just the values from "capture_opts_init" are setted (which are the default values).
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>After reading the code from gtk/main.c I gather that all preferences are properly setted by calling "capture_opts_add_opt(...)" (around line 2000 of gtk/main.c), and that preferences are parsed from command line arguments in 'argv'.
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>Now, what I don't understand, is how the values from the 'Capture Options' dialog show up in the 'argv' array of gtk/main.c for everything except the 2 text areas I added.
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>I think that if I'm able to pass the 'IP address' and 'port number' values from the 'Capture Options' dialog, to the 'argv' array, then I could add some code to "capture_opts_add_opt" to properly set the IP address and port number for each new capture.
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>Thank you for your time and thanks in advance for any help you can provide me. In case you're wondering why I'm addressing you, it's because you seem to know a lot of those parts of the Ethereal source code.
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>Javier Acuña
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Hi!
To better understand the inner workings of the capture engine, see:
http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/ethereal/trunk/docbook/edg_graphics/ and
http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/ethereal/trunk/doc/README.capture which both
are also part of the Ethereal sources.
I've recently updated README.capture, so don't use any older version :-)
Regards, ULFL
