Wireshark · Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal preferences appear to be broken/ign ored

["Berke, Richard" <Richard_Berke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.  That worked.

I don't pretend to be able to fix this myself,
but it sure was confusing.  I think that
the feature/button 'apply' sould mean to put
it into effect immediately.  'Save' to me means
preserve this setting for the next time the
application is run.  I was only displaying a 
previously captured file.  Nothing was live 
or needing to be dynamic.  The variables were
all in memory, and should be able to be 
displayed quickly.

I appreciate that the change could be performed
at all.  I just ask for it to be easier.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:49 PM
To: Berke, Richard
Cc: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal preferences appear to be
broken/ignored


> I can't get the display of Ethereal adjust its displayed columns.
> I really need to show the packet length (bytes).
> I go through the steps to tell Ethereal of the new column.
> After clicking on Apply or Save and then OK, there's no effect
> of my change.

You have to click on "File", and then "Quit", first. :-)

Unfortunately, currently, the code doesn't update the display if the
column preferences are changed; you have to save any capture (if you
have a live capture), exit, and then restart Ethereal to get the new
display.