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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Filtering

Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:49:14 +0000
>No, you can't do that.  hf_icom_message is, as per my earlier mail,  
>*NOT* the value of the field - it's just an index for that field in  
>Wireshark's table of all fields.

>If you want to filter on a field, the answer is simple - *DON'T* use  
>proto_tree_add_text() for it!

The thing is, i get all my information from a dll that i am going to output, the information is either char * or int. Is there a better function other than proto_tree_add_text() for adding this to the tree? 

Thanks,
Greg