Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] Rev 11883: /trunk/gtk/: menu.c proto_draw.c proto_draw.h ui_ut

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> We currently don't have copy support in the edit menu, and it is not clear
> what those would do (cut, copy, paste),

What they'd do depends on where the input focus is.

If it's in the packet list pane, I'd say that Copy should copy, as text 
(and possibly as a CSV list as well), the summary line for the currently 
selected packets to the clipboard.  (Note the "s" in "packets"; we'd 
probably want to allow multiple packets to be selected, e.g. using 
Shift+click to extend the selection.  If more than one packet is 
selected, the packet detail pane wouldn't show any packet, and menu 
items that would act on a single packet wouldn't be enabled.)

If it's in the packet detail pane, I'd say that Copy should copy, as 
text (and possibly other formats), the selected rows of the detail 
display to the clipboard.  (Again, note the "s" in "rows".  If more than 
one row is selected, the status bar wouldn't display anything about any 
field, and menu items that would act on a single field wouldn't be enabled.)

Other windows and panes might also support Copy.

In many windows, Cut, and Paste, wouldn't do anything.  It might be 
difficult, if not impossible, to support editing in the packet detail 
window (what would it mean to remove a field from a packet or insert a 
field in a packet?).  Cutting and pasting packets might be supportable 
in the packet list window, although making it work in a self-consistent 
fashion (e.g., if you move packets, the way some other packets are 
dissected might change) would probably be a lot of work, so we probably 
wouldn't do that at the same time we implement Copy.