Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] [RFC] Combined dialogs for the different conversations types

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 11:16:54 +0200
Hi List!

I'm often have TCP or UDP traffic that I like to investigate.

Currently I find it difficult to use the conversation dialogs, as there is no good way to "navigate" through the dialogs (must open / close a lot of them), to get an idea of the conversation relations.

Instead of opening/closing a lot of single dialogs, it would be much easier to have a single conversation dialog, with notebook tabs for the different conversation types (Ether, IP, UDP, TCP, ...).

I've tried to implement this to some extent, but didn't currently check it in. I would like to hear from others, if this is the right way to go, before (slightly) changing all the endpoint_talkers_xy and a lot of other files.

Here is a screenshot of my investigations so far:

Conversation

Of course, some of the conversation types (FDDI, ...) are missing, but that can be easily added.

To access this, a new menu item "Conversations" just below the current item "Statistics/Protocol Hierarchy" would be appropriate.

Completely the same applies to the "Endpoint lists" too, but I didn't started working on that topic.

Any comments?

Regards, ULFL