Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: delete packets

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From: Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:52 +0100
What about a feature which allows us to
hide all marked packets
or
show only marked packets?

Best regards
Michael


On 18. Feb 2004, at 18:56 Uhr, Richard Sharpe wrote:

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ulf Lamping wrote:

Olivier Biot wrote:

Hi list,

I'd like to implement packet deletion. for many things deeting packets
is *very* similar to marking and unmarking packets. I however have
some questions, so I list some statements below:

1. If I delete a marked packet, I should unmark it too.
2. All (context) menu items on a deleted packet must be disabled,
except for undeletion.
3. If a deleted packet is selected, its dissection tree must not be
shown.
4. Deleting packets in a capture may change the way a capture is
dissected. For example, if I delete a WSP redirect packet, then the
redirection conversation will not be built if the packets are
processed again.
5. Because of 4. we may want to have a "redissect" button be active
whenever we suspect something will change dissection.
6. Deleted packets "never" match a display filter.

Comments are welcome!



What do you mean with packet deletion?

I think he means to mark them as deleted.

Do you want to simply hide the packets, or really remove them from the
capture file?

I don't think it will be easy to delete them from the capture file. We
will have to write the capture file out again to do this.

Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

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