On Oct 23, 2003, at 1:58 AM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
I have added a simple histogram output to the capture dialog (the
dialog, when the capture is in progress).
Hopefully it doesn't get in the way of capturing by increasing the
amount of work done to update the capture dialog. (Microsoft Network
Monitor normally displays a lot of stuff when capturing, but it has an
option wherein all it displays is a dialog box with a packet counter
and a stop button - the packet counter shows the number of packets
captured, and that's it. We might need something similar.)
In the past, I found it difficult to read the percentage values from
this dialog, to get an idea what is going on on the net. When the
capture file isn't very large, the percentage values are flickering a
lot.
Is there any case where the percentage is useful? I.e., should the
histogram *supplement* the percentage or *replace* it?
Example (progress bar emulated by ascii art for this mail):
Total 30 Histogram 100,0%
SCTP 20 ====-- 66,6%
TCP 10 ==---- 33,3%
UDP 0 ------ 0,0%
...
In the total row (the first row), i have avoided the progress bar (and
put the label "Histogram" instead),
It's not obvious what "Histogram" means - should it instead be labeled
as "Percentage" or something such as that? ("100.0%" is also not all
that interesting....)
I first tried to put the percentage value into this progress bar, but
this looks ugly in GTK1 and increases the height of the dialog a lot,
so I removed this again.
How is it in GTK2? If it's not so bad in GTK2 (i.e., doesn't increase
the height of the dialog too much and isn't ugly), perhaps the GTK2
version could do that, with the GTK1 version working as it does now.