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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Clear packet comment should remove the comment entirely?

From: Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 17:22:08 +0200
 

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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Morriss
Sent: den 2 april 2012 16:53
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Clear packet comment should remove the comment entirely?

Anders Broman wrote:
>> Stephen Fisher skrev 2012-03-30 17:59:
>>> Unfortunately, I haven't been following development much lately.  I 
>>> see that we have a packet comment feature now.  Is there a way to 
>>> remove a comment entirely?  I envision the clear button in the "Edit 
>>> or Add Packet Comments" could do this instead of just clearing the 
>>> text buffer, but I see that functionality would probably have to go 
>>> down into the new packet list code and further into the frame data's 
>>> opt_comment variable.
>> If you press the clear button and then save the file and reload the 
>> saved file I think the comment should be gone.
>
>I'd been thinking about this some too; one of the first few things I wanted to do in playing with it was to Delete the comment (from the file, from the packet).  >I imagine users will want to too; I think leaving an empty comment feels like a workaround (even if it really deletes the comment from the file).
>
>I just didn't (and probably won't soon) have time to do anything about it.

Fixed in revision 41895.

Regards
Anders
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