Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Statistics UI for proprietary plugin
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:34:48 -0800

On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Filonenko Alexander-AAF013 wrote:
Looking for an advice on how to add UI to a dissector plugin for proprietary protocol . 

Dissectors themselves can't have UI, but..
Ideally, if the plugin is present then the "Statistics" menu would have another menu item to open the UI.
...that'd be implemented via a tap, which is a separate piece of code from a dissector, although the dissector does queue up work for a tap. 


Are there any suggestions/existing examples of such plugins?
See, for example, the epan/dissectors/packet-afp.c dissector, the gtk/ afp_stat.c tap (for providing GUI statistics for AFP in Wireshark), and the tap-afpstat.c tap (for providing command-line statistics for AFP in TShark).
Dissectors and taps can both be plugins. See, for example, plugins/ stats_tree for a plugin tap.