Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] On Copy as Filter
From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:26:44 +0200
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:55:02PM +0200, didier wrote:
> Le dimanche 31 mai 2009 à 11:56 +0200, Sake Blok a écrit :
> > Hi Jaap (& list),
> > 
> > As the "father" of the "copy as filter" functionality, I would vote for it 
> > to be present all the time in the packet details pane (where I use it most). 
> > Keeping track of all possible filters for the packet list pane seems like an 
> > overkill to me and could be made optional to save memory. Or it should be 
> > implemented in a way where it will dynamically be generated. For 1.2.0 I 
> > would suggest to just revert the implemented memory-consuming patch and 
> > disable the functionality in the packet-list. Then we can decide later to 
> > make it either optional of write code that dynamically generate the filter 
> > string on use (if that is at all possible).
> 
> Anyone remember why it was changed from dynamically generate?
> The SVN log msg doesn't make sense to me.

IIRC, the filter strings were not generated dynamically, they were
generated while building the packet-list, resulting in having the
filters for the last row to be the filters for all rows. But my memory
might not be totally accurate ;-)

Cheers,
     Sake