Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Coloring rules dialog

[Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 4:04 pm, Martin Mathieson wrote:
> I've been using coloring rules a lot today, and have 2 minor gripes:
>
> (1) The coloring rules menu item isn't enabled when no file has been
> loaded or capture started - I've sometimes wanted to create/adjust
> these before a capture.  Is there a reason ever to disable this? 
> I've attached a patch to menu.c to remove it from the items that are
> sensitive to having packets loaded.

I would certainly welcome that one.

> (2) I've become accustomed to the display filter syntax checking
> colouring. The attached patch to color_dlg.c adds this, but it looks
> a little odd as it doesn't apply to a new or existing filter until
> you edit them (existing ones start with the chosen color scheme of
> the rule, new ones appear with the string "filter" showing plainly).

I'm having trouble parsing the phrase "display filter syntax checking 
colouring". Could you explain what the patch does?

-- 
Richard Urwin