[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:34:12PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>  
>
> > Although I just used plain GTK mechanisms (working on win32 both GTK 
> > version 1 and 2),
> > it might not be working on other platforms.
> > Especially the string format of the dragged target filename might differ 
> > on the various platforms.
> >    
>
> At least with KDE 3.0's file manager/Web browser Konqueror, file name
> URI's appear to be of the form
>
> 	file:/foo/bar/...
>
> so that only "file:" should be stripped off.  I've checked in a change
> to do that, and can now drop capture files from Konqueror into Ethereal.
>
> Perhaps we should look for "file:" followed by an arbitrary number of
> "/"s, and, at least on UNIX, strip off all but the last "/".
>
>  
Should have added an example, how the win32 string look like...

file:///d:/dir1/dir2/capture-file.cap

I will add this to the comment.

With your changes, it still works well on my win32 machine :-)


I've added this feature, as it's frequently used by win32 users 
(advanced ones?).
I use it regularly on other programs and a bit disappointed that it 
wasn't working with Ethereal.

Regards, ULFL