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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] FeatureReq: GoToFrame Lua API call

From: Tony Trinh <tony19@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:29:40 -0500
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Márton Cserbák
<marton.cserbak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I got to writing to you following the instructions on http://wiki.wireshark.org/WishList.
>
> Currently I am developing a VoIP media plane analyzer tool in Lua for Wireshark, and it would be nice, if it would be possible to call a function (e.g. GoToFrame) from the Lua script, that selects the frame requested in the main GUI window (just as it is possible in the VoIP Calls/Graph Analysis window).
>

Assuming one does not already exist, you can submit a request for
enhancement via http://bugs.wireshark.org.

> Also, it would be nice to have access to the Gtk libraries already installed with WS through the Lua API.
>

You can already do this with Lua Alien.