Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Lack of close button on Conversation windows

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:32:57 +1100
From: "Guy Harris"
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Lack of close button on Conversation windows


>
> On Oct 29, 2003, at 4:30 PM, Joe Patterson wrote:
>
> > Something I just noticed, which may be present in other places.  If
> > you open
> > a capture (haven't tested this on any other platforms, yet, just
> > 0.9.15 on
> > W2K), and open one of the "Conversations" statistics windows, that
> > window
> > has no close button, and if you hit the windows close X, it exits
> > ethereal
> > entirely.  This seems non-optimal.  Anyone else notice this?
>
> No.  I just tried the current CVS version on Mac OS X 10.3, and I can
> dismiss it by clicking the "X" jellybean^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbutton and
> the window closes without Ethereal crashing (if Ethereal exits as a
> result of anything other than File->Quit or the main window's close
> button, it's probably a crash).
>
> This might be a UNIX+X vs. Windows thing, or it might be a bug fixed
> since 0.9.15.

I think it was a bug in how I handled GTK that was only triggered, or at
least showed that behaviour, on windows.
The behaviour that ethereal terminated when a conversation window was closed
under windows
dissapeared some weeks ago in the CVS version.
I dont know exactly what change fixed this behaviour but it doesnt happen
for me anymore.

>
> A "Close" button might be useful, however.  Ronnie?

I will add one tomorrow.