Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bug in Ethereal: Closing Read Filter Window fails

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hirsch, Christian wrote:

> Hi Ethereal-Experts,
>
> I think I found a bug which wasn't closed by the last release 0.10.10
> My OS is Fedora Core 2.
>
> File --> Open --> Filter:
> The Window "Ethereal: Read Filter" opens.
> But you can't choice a predefiend Filter or just Close the window.
> It hangs.
>  
After having a look at this, it's really ugly...

The main problem is that the GtkFileChooser dialog (we use since GTK 
2.4) requires to use gtk_dialog_run(), as some widgets of that dialog 
(e.g. the Ok button) can no longer be accessed directly.

Unfortunately gtk_dialog_run takes control over "all" events (seems to 
have it's own event loop), so we can open the filter dialog when the 
"Filter:" button was pressed, but that dialog won't receive any events, 
which is causing the problem described.

I don't know any convenient solution :-(

We could use the GtkFileSelection for all GTK versions again, drop 
support for the Filter dialog at this place, ....

I don't know what to do here, suggestions?

Regards, ULFL