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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9008] Need Collapse Subtrees (Shift+Left) option

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:20:29 +0000

Comment # 6 on bug 9008 from
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Personally I think that more is needed (beyond what's in attachment 11322 [details]
> > [details]): there should also be a Collapse Subtrees menu item.
> > 
> > But I'll leave that to someone else to decide or code up.
> 
> I definitely agree. A collapse subtrees option would be very useful in my
> case. Our project bundles many objects into a packet, and this default
> behavior of expanding all the subtrees is blowing up my window.
> 
> An acceptable alternate behavior is to only expand 1 level deep at a time.
> If I need to start over, I'll collapse parent, and re-expand children as
> needed. This appears to be the default behavior of some things, but my
> custom protocol subtrees all fully expand when the parent expands.

That's probably because you're using 1 ett_ variable for all the trees.  Or
you're using Lua and running into the problem described here:

http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/31356/how-to-get-all-tree-items-collapsed-as-default-in-gtk-version


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