Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9817] Provide a way to clear the captu
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:45:58 -0800
On Feb 28, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How about a third choice: just clear the summary pane (or scroll down so that the previous last line shown is at now the top (or similar) ?

The summary pane currently shows what packets are in the capture, so "clearing the summary pane" and "discarding the packets in the capture" are inherently the same operation.

Are you suggesting that we change the Wireshark internal model so that there is no longer one frame data structure for every packet in the file, or that we, in effect, have *two* forms of filtering of the display - filtering based on a filter expression and filtering based on "don't display any packets before this one"?

If so, which packets should, for example, a Save, Save As, or Export Specified Packets operation see?  Should it see the ones "cleared" from the display?