[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Vladimir Zherdenovsky wrote:
> I want to separate the protocol tree item name from its value. It will
> be fine use the bold font or set the color.
> Its will help to people, using the ethereal as analyzer, see the name
> and values. Because now its looks too gray and monotone.

If that's true (which I think is a matter of opinion, not fact, so 
perhaps it should be configurable, so that those who find it too gray 
and monotone can configure Ethereal to display it in boldface, or in 
some different color, and those of us who really aren't bothered by it 
can have Ethereal continue to display it as it does now; note, of 
course, that Tethereal can't display it specially...), then shouldn't it 
be a general property of Ethereal, rather than something a particular 
dissector does?

If so, then that'd be somewhat tricky for dissectors using 
"proto_tree_add_text()" or "proto_tree_add_*_format()".

The latter might be fixable if you change its semantics so that the item 
name is added to the item by the call, which has the additional 
advantage that you don't have to copy the name from the field 
specification - the call will get the name and insert it for you.

The former would be more work, although perhaps the call can be changed 
to take the field name as an argument.

Those calls might be used to make entries such as

	IP address 1: 192.9.200.1
	IP address 2: 192.9.200.2

and so on, though, in which case having the name be separate from the 
format string wouldn't work.