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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] master 931807e: Qt: Add the "new packet"

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:31:14 -0800
On 2/12/15 5:44 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 3:32 PM, Wireshark code review <code-review-do-not-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> URL: https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=931807ea61cd9b2729fa06fefa6ce3a09b89ee4b
>> Submitter: Gerald Combs (gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>> Changed: branch: master
>> Repository: wireshark
>>
>> Commits:
>>
>> 931807e by Gerald Combs (gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx):
>>
>>    Qt: Add the "new packet" window^Wdialog^Wwindow.
>>
>>    Allow persistence across files. Preserve the use of "window" even
>>    though we're really a dialog.
> 
> So what's the difference between a "window" and a "dialog" here?

Ideally none. Creating a window with a standard buttons along the bottom
using Qt Creator gives you a subclass of QDialog, which is why we have a
lot of FooDialog classes in ui/qt. However, many (most?) of these should
behave more like independent windows.

> There's no minimize button, at least in OS X; is that intentional?

No. This should be fixed in g80342e4.

> Presumably having double-clicking an item in the packet list not popping up a window is a Simple Matter of Programming not yet done, rather than intentional.

Fixed in ga0498f1.