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

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From: David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:12:22 -0600
That sounds too specific.  I haven't looked, but is there an easy way
to change the color of items?  I think I remember a post that said that
some of the tcp session stuff used colors.

Perhaps you could mark erroneous data red?

-Dave

On Friday, 02 Nov 2001, Guy Harris wrote:
> >   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.
> 
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