Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GUI Enhancements
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From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 06:59:00 -0700
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Erik Tews <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would like to write a script, which should generate a kind of
> histogramm of the packet lengths of some packets. The filter expression
> should be derived from the currently selected packet in the GUI. Is it
> possible to access the currently selected packet in the GUI, and perhaps
> add the script to a right-click menu on that packet, using a lua script?
> If not, what would be the best option to add such a feature?

One way to do this would be to add support to Lua for adding menu
items to any named menu ...

I think you can easily do this sort of thing with tshark by the way,
since you can do filtering in tshark and can extract the packet length
field, etc.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)