Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Column Widths with -S on 0.6.3

[Guy Scharf <guy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, it's not working well!  Each time the display updates -- even if
no data in the currently visible set of records changes, the column
widths change.  The go wide, then pop back to the original narrow
settings (cutting off most data), then go wide again.  They take on
several different widths.  There's not enough width on the screen to
display all data for all records, so it's not possible to find a set of
column widths that will "work" in all cases.

I look at the screen, touching nothing, and the columns resize.  I make
a column wider to examine a field, and then it spontaneously shrinks
again.  If I adjust the column width, surely the program shouldn't
override me?

Personally, programs that assume they know best about how the screen
should be organized drive me batty.  I'd appreciate a switch to turn
automatic column-sizing off.  I think I'd prefer that ethereal remember
that way I had column widths set the last time I used it.

Guy

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > No, this was not a known problem until now. The column code changed a bit,
> > and we overlooked this column-width behavior. I'll take a look at the
> > code.
> 
> The change was to have the column width, for a column, be computed based
> on the width of that column in the row with the widest such column,
> rather than picking a fixed width at start-up time.

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