Well, Match Selected was originally written as just a bytestring
comparison routine, so it could work either with selected bytes in the
hex dump window or a selected field in the protocol window. I suppose
it has been changed since then; too bad, because that byte selection
feature was useful.
-Ashok
>
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:38:54 Laurent Deniel wrote:
> >
> >
> > The Match Selected feature currently works only if you have a field
> > selected in the protocol tree. A long time ago, if I remember correctly,
> > it was also working when you selected some bytes in the packet hex dump
> > window (with a display filter of the form frame[...] = ...).
> >
> > So we have 2 options :
> >
> > 1) make it work again with the hex dump window or,
> >
> > 2) disable the Match Selected menu item when there is no protocol row
> > selected (like "Protocol Properties ...")
> > and remove it from the right click popup menu of the packet list
> > (since it is now only related to the protocol tree).
> >
> > Any remarks ?
>
> I don't recall Ethereal doing *anything* with the current
> selection in the hex dump GtkText widget.
>
> --gilbert
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