Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal/gtk file_dlg.c

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 05:48:06AM -0500, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>  
>
> >  Modified files:
> >    gtk                  file_dlg.c 
> >  Log:
> >  add preview information to the open and merge dialog boxes
> >    
>
> Note that for a *really* large file it can take a non-trivial amount of
> time to compute the preview information, as it has to read the entire
> capture.
>  
I agree.

I think we have the following options on this:

- a progressbar indicating the preview progress, but I don't like this
- cancelling preview after some amount of packets (e.g. 10000), but this 
will be dependant on the machines speed
- cancelling preview after some amount of time (e.g. two seconds), I 
would prefer this approach

Cancelling doesn't mean that no info can be shown, as we can still show 
something like this anyway:
Filename: hello.cap
Format: libpcap
Size: 15242422 bytes
Packets: > 1523
First: 2004-04-13 13:31:14
Elapsed: unknown

Any comments?

BTW: thanks Guy for your efforts getting my sources compile without 
warnings on GCC, "sometimes" MSVC can be annoying ;-)

Regards, ULFL