[Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 21 Jun 2003 10:42 am, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:36:18AM -0700, Jon Baer wrote:
> > as a follow up basically what id *really* like to do is right click
> > on the packet window, highlight the hex, right click and copy (so i
> > can import the data into ids ruleset).
>
> That's tricky, because we're just using a dumb text widget to display
> it.  As long as the hex data is all on the same line, you *can* right
> click and copy (control-C should work, on both UNIX+X and Windows),
> but if it's split between lines, you'd have to copy it a line at a
> time.
>
> We'd either have to have our own text display widget, or use some
> widget to display it as three separate columns of text (offset, hex,
> ASCII), in order to let you select just the hex data for multiple
> lines.

Howabout implementing a right-click->Copy in the tree-view? That would 
only copy a single protocol field, but it should be doable.

-- 
Richard Urwin