Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Redesign of the WHOLE Ethereal main menu

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:33:47 +1100
If tehy are not being displayed due to a display filter, then
they packets have to be dissected so that the display filter can be
evaluated.

The same functions that decode the packets are also preparing the fields of
the packets
so that the filter can be evaluated.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blue Boar"
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Redesign of the WHOLE Ethereal main menu


> Guy Harris wrote:
> > So Ethereal can't have "Update list of packets in real time" always be
on.
>
> I wasn't suggesting that it should always be on, simply that if it is on,
> it would be nice to be able to turn off and on the auto-scrolling on the
fly.
>
> Why does Ethereal need to decode packets that aren't currently being
displayed?
>
> BB
>
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