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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Q about new Help ! Manual Pages feature

From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:04:17 +0100
Bill Meier wrote:
First: The ability to view the user's manual and the man pages and etc in a browser is really neat; nice work !
Thanks :-)

BTW: From 0.99.5 you'll be able to press a help button on various dialogs showing the corresponding section of the User's Guide - might be even more helpful ;-)
I'm using Firefox on Windows XP with Wireshark SVN 20522 built with MSVC 6.

A few minor notes based upon some quick tests:

1. When I select Help ! Manual Pages ! Wireshark I get a "Copy" pop-up box saying "Select the place where you want to copy wireshark.html".

If I hit cancel the wireshark man page displays in Firefox.
If I hit 'copy' the file is copied but does not get displayed in Firefox.


So: what's the 'copy' popup about ??
Something about my configuration ? or what ?
My machine (XP/Firefox) simply shows the requested manpage in HTML format. Sounds like your firefox configuration is strange. I guess that has something to do with the local files (file:// prefix) - but i don't have a clue about the real cause.
2. The Help ! Contents and the Help ! User' Guide both display the User's Guide.

Is that as expected ? If so, might it be better to only have one choice which displays the User's Guide ?
Yes, that left over from previous implementation. I've removed the duplicate User's Guide item.
3. One time while trying out the Help ! ... functions I somehow managed to wedge Wireshark; It wasn't using any CPU but would not respond to any mouse clicks. When I used the task manager to kill Wireshark, the message I got was 'program not responding.... do you want to stop ... ?".

I was unable to duplicate this with a few quick tries. I'll see if I can duplicate the problem tomorrow evening and try to see what is going on
Hmmh, without more input it will be hard to track this down.

I never experienced something like this myself.

Regards, ULFL