Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] using a bitmask without dotted presentation?

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Patrick Fuchs wrote:
> i want to work with a bitmask in a hf_register_info-element to compute 
> and display a value smaller than 8 bit. Is it possible to do this 
> without having the special dotted bitmaskpresentation. (->" 
> ..010...")  if i use a proto_add_yyy funktion?
Hi!

1.) What's wrong with this presentation?
2.) Ethereal user a used to see it that way, so usability say's you 
should do it the same way as any other dissector do, unless you have 
*very good* reasons to do it different. "I don't like that presentation" 
is probably not a good reason on it's own :-)

Regards, ULFL