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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Bug 15709: Segfault on MacOS; help wanted

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:45:15 -0700
On Apr 24, 2019, at 4:14 PM, Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It should be displayed in the UAT dialog and prevent you from saving it.
> However on macOS I have seen that events are not always processed in the
> expected order:
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15709#c5

Or maybe not processed at all.

In that example, I've found that the only way to add a new Decode As entry on macOS is to tab out of the combo box for the "decode it as..." protocol before clicking a button to add the entry.  (All that in addition to the combo box looking ugly as *hell* on macOS when it's active.)