Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Column auto-resizing

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:39:09 +0100
| From: Guy Harris
| 
| On Dec 3, 2003, at 10:48 AM, Ian Schorr wrote:
| 
| > There's also the issue of what width columns should be by default - 
| > when no prefs exist for column widths, or a "new" column is added 
| > whose width has not been adjusted by the user yet.
| 
| MAX(width of column heading, wired-in width for columns for which we 
| have such a width).  Use the width of the string from 
| "get_column_longest_string()" as the wired-in width.

I would propose to set the initial size to the length of the column label
plus a fixed value. GUI settings should not be written to the decoding
preferences I think.

Regards,

Olivier