Is print-to-file really that unintuitive?
I use it a fair lot (sometimes forcing expansion, sometimes not, sometimes
hex also, sometimes not) and it works quite nicely.
'course, I come to it as a developer..
Perhaps something like a "save as text..." dialog with options similar to
the current print dialog, but with augmented "filter" options (selected,
current, marked, all, etc., as already discussed) would work. Having a
single dialog with options all in one place might make it easier for the
user to realize what part(s) of the trace they are saving, and in what
format (full expansion, hex included, etc.).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:49 PM
> To: Ulf Lamping
> Cc: Ethereal
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Redesigned print dialog
>
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2003, at 10:49 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > Summarize this, it sounds to me that we might need an
> "export to raw
> > text" function or such.
>
> How about:
>
> Save summary as text
>
> for writing to a text file the summary lines, and
>
> Save dissection as text
>
> for writing to a text file the detailed dissection of the packets.
> That way it might make it clear that you're *NOT* saving the capture,
> you're saving the summary or the dissection of the capture.
>
> However, as we have a "Tools->Summary" item that displays a
> summary of
> the capture, i.e. packet counts and the like, perhaps "Save
> summary as
> text" would be confusing, and we should just have "Save dissection as
> text" and have a UI similar to the "Print" dialog.
>
> (Or maybe there's a better word than "dissection".)
>
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