Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Add PDML output to ethereal

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Gilbert Ramirez wrote:

> On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:54, Biot Olivier wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Today we can only produce PDML output in tethereal (with the -Tpdml
> > command-line option). I guess it is not that complicated to add support for
> > PDML output in Ethereal, unless I ignore the consequences of packet
> > reassembly?
> >
> >    
>
> No, it would not be difficult. SInce PDML output is implemented as a print 
> output style, the easiest and most straight-forward approach would be to add 
> this option to the print dialogue.
>  
When implementing it as an option into the print dialog, this would be 
easy to implement and it might be a quick hack to help.

> However, I wonder if that's not the best UI decision... do users expect PDML 
> output to be selected from "File | Save As" ? Of course, they serve different 
> purposes... saving as a different file format saves just the packet data, not 
> the dissection, whereas the printing function prints the packet dissection.
>  
Well, as described in my last mail, "File/Export/PDML" or "File/Save As" 
would be ok IMHO.

Putting it into the print dialog is *not* obvious for an export function.

Regards, ULFL