On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:19 AM, fab12@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Is there any way to send some information to a plugin dissector from the
> wireshark GUI interface?
What sort of information?
> For instance using a wireshark menu to set some variable that will be
> accessible from the plugin.
As Anders suggested, you *can* give it global information through a preference setting.
We should probably also add a notion of "conversations" available to dissectors at multiple layers (a notion more general than the current address-and-port-endpoint-pair notion, that can include multiple address layers, "circuits" for protocols that have a virtual circuit ID of some sort, and conversations at layers above the transport layer), and per-"conversation" settings as well, with Wireshark offering a GUI to let you select a conversation and set one or more of a set of dissector-specified parameters.
> Or maybe it is possible to add a menu from the plugin?
A menu item to do what?
