Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bug in capture menu

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:30:19 +0100
Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:

What I meant was, that even if I do not check the "Update list of packets in real time" option when I do a capture, I would still
expect it to show the (empty) packet panes.
Ok, now I got what you mean.

But I disagree about the intended behabiour. If I don't use "Update list of packets in real time", there won't be any packets shown in the packet panes, until I stop the capture.

So it's really misleading to show the empty panes already at that point. If the panes are shown, I would expect that something will appear there while capturing, which they won't do.

Consider this case:
1) Perform a capture or read a stored capture file.
2) You see the packet panes.
3) You want to do a new capture.
4) You start the capture without checking "Update list of packets in real time".
5) The capture starts, and all of a sudden the Welcome pane
  is shown again, but you cannot do anything with it...
That's the same thing with the menu and the toolbar. I would 100% agree that all of these have to be grayed out (insensitive), so it's obvious they cannot be used while this capture is in progress.

I've run myself into this problem: while doing a capture clicking on the menu and wondered why nothing happens.

I don't currently know if it's possible to disable the menu, toolbar. But if it's possible, it should be done (sorry, but limited time to do it right now).

Regards, ULFL