Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] The empty "Tools" menu toplevel item must be removed before
On 10/16/06, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
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You maybe keep it in it's place and just hide it (using the
gtk_widget_hide/show calls for the menu item widget). That's usually
*much* simpler than finding and inserting at the right place in the
hierarchy later again.
That I thought as well... but I did not find out how to get a ptr to the menu.
It should be possible to get the GTK widget pointer from the menu item
factory somehow, that's how the statistics items are handled when I
remember correct.
I looked for a way to get a pointer to the widget in menu.c but I
didn't find it... Neither did I found anything helpful in the GTK2
Ref...
If you get stuck, I may be able to help you here.
I'm stuck... and help would be very welcome :)
> On 10/16/06, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> IF the lua scripting would only be missing some features and show some bugs from time to time that would be ok.
>>
> It's still missing features...
> It isn't yet documented...
> But I'm at the point in which others have to help me find the bugs...
> I don't know of any I haven't fixed... I know there are many more but
> I just don't know where.
>
So updating the docs should be the next step.
>
>> BUT - AFAIK the lua scripting support is just buggy, the documentation is outdated and misleading, ...
>>
> I'll be working on the documentation on the next few days, I'll pull
> out at least a summary reference manual, and some examples.
>
>
Sounds good.
>> ... in it's current form it's just not ready for "prime time" IMHO.
>>
> That's my opinion as well, btw It does no harm unless invoked. So I
> prefer it there (maybe disabled from the init.lua) but available.
>
>
ACK. As long as it won't show up in the GUI as default it's just fine.
Showing it if some lua scripts are available is ok as well.
>> Releasing it to the public now will end in a lot of discussion, discouraging a lot of users about bugs and alike - they will never try it again when it's actually ready.
>>
> What do you mean by releasing it?
> Source code its been in the repo (and source tarballs) for months...
> A Binary (plugin) for windows has been available since Ethereal...
>
>
Well, mention it in the release notes, mentioning it to users if someone
asks, moving the docs from the development to the users part of the
wiki, ...
>> Everything has it's time, and the current lua integration isn't there yet IMHO.
>>
> Which are the milestones?
>
>
Well, it's your task to set the milestones, I guess the next is to write
some decent docs/wiki pages :-)
Regards, ULFL
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