Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal highighting

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:01:02 -0800 (PST)
>   Ethereal Team, I was wondering if it's possible to setup Ethereal to 
> highlight in some manner (reverse video is one way) line items that show 
> errors.

It would, if, internally to Ethereal, there were a way to tag protocol
tree items as having errors in them.

That currently doesn't exist; we should probably think about adding an
"error" flag.

This would not only allow us to optionally mark them in some fashion
(I'd go for allowing the user to specify the foreground and background
color for them), it would also allow us to add a special "error" value
in display filters, so that you could

	filter the display to show only frames with the error flag set;

	use the "Find Frame" function to find frames with the error flag
	set.