Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] "Save" dialog takes 1 minute to appear

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:55:36 -0700
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:51:17PM -0400, Charles-Antoine Caron wrote:
> Everything works fine except when I want to save the packets that were
> captured. From the "File" menu, when I select the "Save" option, it takes a
> good minute before the "Save" dialog appears.

It may be that the GTK+ file save dialog box (which is the dialog box
that Ethereal uses, as it's an application that uses the GTK+ GUI
toolkit) is slow on Windows.  (I think I've even noticed that it can be
a bit slow on UNIX.)