Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Stats_tree generalization

[Andy Howell <AndyHowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:25:08AM -0600, Andy Howell wrote:
>
> > 	I've just added support for "tap" and stats_tree in my 
> > dissector.  I would like to have a stats_tree-like display that 
> > includes my own columns. In particular, I want a summary of the number 
> > of bytes sent by each message type in my protocol.
> >
> > I can see three options:
> >
> > 1) Modify the existing stats_tree code to handle a developer defined 
> > set of columns.
>
> This is probably the best method to start an attempt at, hpoefully 
> without requiring changes to the existing dissectors that use the 
> stats tree API.

Steve,

Having studied the code some more, this looks reasonable. My plan is to 
leave the existing interface intact, and add a new extended 
stats_tree_register_ex that takes an array of column names and a 
callback function to write column data to a buffer for use by the 
underlying gtk and tshark presentation code.

Thanks,

	Andy