Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Capture ringbuffer behaviour, 3rd proposal

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>  
>
> > IMHO the "Stop capture after 1______ file(s)" belongs into the limit(s), 
> > as it is really a capture limit.
> >    
>
> ...and it should presumably be grayed out if "Use multiple files" isn't
> selected, unlike the other limits.
>
>  
Yes, of course, just didn't mention it.

> > P.S: To qoute: "I however agree that the widget is probably the most 
> > cumbersome of Ethereal today", well I still know some very strange dialogs,
> > like the "add expression" dialog, which are also good candidates for 
> > this award ;-)
> >    
>
> Brickbats to Redmond, Washington - it's modeled after a Network Monitor
> dialog in their display filter mechanism.  (They have a dialog for
> constructing expressions that lets you build an expression tree, and a
> subdialog for adding test expressions; that's what I modeled the "Filter
> Expression" dialog after.)
>
>  
I don't think the dialog is a mess in itself, just some details that it 
will make hard to work with.
I will come back to it later, when I have finished some things with 
higher prio.

Regards, ULFL