Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal library

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yu-Chung Cheng wrote:
> I have a GUI program and I want to use ethereal to display packets. I
> would like to display each packet in a seperate window. Does ethereal
> provide any library calls for external program?

Not one that would let you do that easily.  There is a library to do 
dissection (with an API that is *NOT* frozen!), but that doesn't help 
you in displaying the packets - the library does dissection, but not 
display, as it's used by Ethereal (which does GUI display) and Tethereal 
(which just displays as text).

At some time it might be interesting to export various 
ActiveX/Bonobo/KParts/AppleScript/etc. interfaces from Ethereal, so that 
it can be driven by other applications, but that doesn't exist yet.