Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Native file dialogs under Windows

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:03:10 -0600
It looks like the packet list isn't being updated.  When I merge a file,
the "P" field in the status bar shows the correct number of packets
immediately, but the packet list doesn't show the merged packets until I
save the file.  Are you seeing the same thing on your end?

Greg Morris wrote:
> Menu option file/merge now doesn't work after this checkin. On Windows XP.
>  
> Greg
> 
>>>> ulf.lamping@xxxxxx 2/14/2006 1:37:55 AM >>>
> Gerald Combs wrote:
>> I haven't seen this on my end.  Dunno what could cause it.
>>  
> Guesswork: not available network shares
>> Fixed.
>>  
> I've fixed it too, but you were faster than me :-)
>>> - this is the "old style" dialog (e.g. used by Visual Studio 6). The
>>> "new style" (XP style?) dialog looks like the one from Firefox (I can
>>> provide screen shots if needed)
>>>    
>>
>> I added a manifest file which should fix this.
>>  
> As you've noted in the commit comment, this causes problems if the
> version string is not as expected.
> 
> I'm usually using something like 0.10.14.0xx for my personal Ethereal
> versions.
> 
> That has several advantages, one is that plugins won't interfere between
> installed and devel versions.
> 
> However, while debugging with my Visual Studio 6 I had VS crashes all
> the time after the manifest changes were done.
> 
> This is unfortunate. Someone not following the current conversation will
> get lost fixing this problem. Any ideas to circumvent this problem?
> 
> Regards, ULFL
> 
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