[Andy Howell <AndyHowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 3:31 PM, Andy Howell wrote:
>
> >     Setting column headings is done before if(tree)
>
>
> Not necessarily.  It has to be done regardless of whether the "tree" 
> argument is null, but you can set column headings after you start 
> building the protocol tree.

I think I was doing something phenomenally stupid like:

if (check_col(pinfo->cinfo, COL_INFO))
	build_my_info_str(..., col_info);
	col_add_str(pinfo->cinfo, COL_INFO, col_info);

It kept coring 'cause cinfo was null. It was only later after I moved 
the COL_INFO stuff before the if(tree) that I noticed the lack of 
brackets on my "if". Arrgg.

> Yes - when you click on a frame the keyboard and/or mouse is grabbed (I 
> forget which).  At home, at least, I use a version of GTK+ that I hacked 
> to have a "--gtk-no-grabs" command-line argument, which disables those 
> grabs, and run Ethereal with that argument when debugging.

Hmm, that sounds like a neat trick. Is it only the GTK+ lib that needs 
hacking?

On another note, is there a way to speed up the build? After compiling, 
ethereal seems to be a script that then does further linking. To debug, 
I have to run it once, exit, and run .libs/lt-ethereal to run it under 
the debugger. Is there a faster way? I tried to get it to build a static 
version, but ran into problems. The 2am "I'll just try it one more 
time..." kind of problems that I don't really remember what they were.

I was tempted to rip out all the dissectors I don't need to speed up the 
whole process. I'm working with a UDP based protocol, so that is all I 
need. If I just have Frame, Ethernet II, IP and UDP will it work?

Thanks,

	Andy