Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Experimental capture file merge feature in Ethereal

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

I've implemented an experimental capture file merge feature.

It will do the following:

If the current capture file is a temporary file, the user will be asked 
to save it, as only saved files can be merged.

Then it will open a "file open like" dialog box, where the user can 
select the file to be merged to the currently loaded file.

The resulting capture file will be handled as a new temporary file, just 
like a newly untitled captured one.


The current merge implementation is experimental only, will not handle 
file errors appropriately and needs some code cleanup (e.g. find a good 
seperation between mergecap.c and merge.c, as I've duplicated a lot of 
code).

One thing really missing now is a preview in the file open dialog box 
(and other corresponding ones), which will tell the user the values of 
the currently selected file (file size, time of capture, ...)

Any comments welcome.

Regards, ULFL