On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 10:22:36AM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 12:00:12PM -0500, Frank Solensky wrote:
>
> > What I'd like to do is to rework the code in the "Edit > Preferences >
> > User Interface > Columns" options so that the user could add or remove
> > packet list pane columns beyond those currently offered. This would
> > be based off the same tree generated for the "Display Filter >
> > Expression > Field Name" dialog.
> >
> > I haven't seen any mention of anything like this in bugzilla or in the
> > mailing list archives yet but my search has only been cursory so far.
> > Is this something that's already been though of? If not, is it
> > something that others would fine useful as well?
>
> Enhancement Bug #2002 is titled "Add ability to make any field a column"
>
> http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2002
>
> I am very interested in getting this implemented as well, but have not
> had the time to do it yet. I was thinking that this could be
> implemented using the proto_tree_add_* functions. Those functions would
> check if a column with the contents of the field being processed is
> active and if so, populate it. I am not sure how much of a performance
> hit we would take doing this though.
Isn't it possible to have a routine appended at the end of the packet
processing that looks for columns with a field-name and then look up the
corresponding value. That would be less of a performance hit I think.
I too would find this flexibility very useful :-)
Cheers,
Sake
