Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Displaying a variable in a Dissector Protocol Tree

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Eyman wrote:
> I'd like to add a value that was fetched into a variable to the protocol
> tree. The README.developer tells that the proto_tree_add_int()routine
> suppose to do that. Hence if I look on the definition in the epan\proto.h,
> it requires all the parameters related to the tvb, but no references to the
> variable itself.
>
> Can somebody tell how to do that correctly?
> Thanks

From proto.h (reformatted):

extern proto_item *
proto_tree_add_int(proto_tree *tree, int hfindex, tvbuff_t *tvb,
        gint start, gint length, gint32 value);


'value' sounds like what you're seeking ...   :)