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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7677] New: The box for reading added text (annotations) to

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:48:51 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7677

           Summary: The box for reading added text (annotations) to
                    capture are two small
           Product: Wireshark
           Version: 1.8.2
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: SuSE
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Low
         Component: Wireshark
        AssignedTo: bugzilla-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: hello.martin@xxxxxxxx


Created attachment 9026
  --> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=9026
Example of the "Edit and Add Packets Comments" when filed with more text

Build Information:
Version 1.8.2 (SVN Rev Unknown from unknown)

Copyright 1998-2012 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (32-bit) with GTK+ 2.24.7, with Cairo 1.10.2, with Pango 1.29.4, with
GLib 2.30.1, with libpcap, without libz, with POSIX capabilities (Linux), with
SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.7.5, with Lua 5.1, without Python, without GnuTLS,
with
Gcrypt 1.5.0, with MIT Kerberos, with GeoIP, with PortAudio V19-devel (built
Oct
29 2011), with AirPcap.

Running on Linux 3.1.10-1.16-desktop, with locale en_US.UTF-8, with libpcap
version 1.1.1, Gcrypt 1.5.0, without AirPcap.

Built using gcc 4.6.2.
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The excellent feature to add notes to packets inside Wireshark with the new
pcap-ng file format. Has a small drawback (since I sometimes tend to write long
annotations). 
And that's the "Edit and Add Packets Comments" box is to small when looking at
comments. 
Because a receiver of the capture might not now there is comments "hidden"
beneath the box border. It's of course easy to make the box larger, but it
would be great if there was a slider on the side (that usually indicates there
is more to read in the box). Or the box could be automatically larger (but
don't know how to stop it gets very large when lots of text is included).

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