Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Opinions on solving bug #1375: Capture Options with many IP
Stephen Fisher wrote:
I need some people's opinions on how we should solve bug #1375: "Capture
Options with many IP addresses scrolls off screen" because I can't
decide the best way to do it. The problem is that the IP address: field
in the capture dialog makes the window as wide as the screen and scrolls
off the edge of the widget if there are many IP addresses on the
selected interface.
So far in my local code base, I've introduced the ... at the end of the
label in GTK 2.6 and up and inserted an event box in between the hbox
for the IP address list and the IP address label so it now cuts it off
with the natural width of the window with ... or just cuts off before
the edge of the widget. The event box keeps it looking clean and
fitting within the hbox, and it even allows me to add tooltips when you
point to the label. However, with a lot of IP addresses the tooltip is
apparently too long and only flashes on the screen for a moment before
disappearing :). With a hand full of addresses, it works nicely.
Should we list all of the IP addresses in some way - perhaps with
another button to pop-up a list? That seems like we're overdoing it,
but the user is saying that they usually want to look through the IPs at
the beginning or the end and I suspect that others would want to look at
any IP in the list. Or should we just keep it with the ... at the end
and fitting nicely into the capture dialog (requires the event box).
Any other ideas?
The best IMHO would be to show only something like you've described -
cut after a specific amount of chars and append "...", the rest of the
IP addresses should be displayed by the tooltip.
BTW: with IPv6 addresses, the described problem will be even more
problematic.
Would it be possible to add a CR and/or NL to the tooltip text, so the
problem you've described with the tooltip too big doesn't happen?
Regards, ULFL
