Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] proto_tree -> proto_item

[Luca Ceresoli <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

wsgd ha scritto:
>  From proto.h :
> /** A protocol tree element. */
> typedef proto_node proto_tree;
> /** A protocol item element. */
> typedef proto_node proto_item;
>   
Wow.

From my superficial knowledge of wireshark's internals I've always 
found it very strange that item and tree are two distinct "objects". 
What's a tree node if not the root of a (possibly empty) subtree?
I really can't figure out the reason for such a choice.

Back to the original issue, it seems that a text item created by 
ptvcursor_add_text_with_subtree() cannot be _legally_ changed.

Luca