Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capture menu changed since documented?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:59:16 -0700

On Sep 18, 2003, at 6:03 AM, torinwalker@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

First, why was the Capture menu changed to no longer include a stop-capture function (Ctrl-E)?

It wasn't, in UNIX.  It's still there.

It might have been changed a long time ago in Windows, but I'm not sure we ever had that function in Windows - the mechanism we use to stop the capture in UNIX (sending a signal to the capture subprocess with "kill()") isn't available in Windows, and nobody's changed it to support a different mechanism.

Secondly, is there any way to turn off the *incredibly annoying* pop-up stats/control window,

It would be *MASSIVELY* incredibly annoying to man of us if there were no way to find out how many packets have been captured so far; that could, for non-"Update list of packets in real time", probably be done in the main window - it'd be harder to do in "Update list of packets in real time" captures (the window is maintained by the process doing the capturing and, in "Update list of packets in real time" captures, that's a separate process from the one that maintains the main window), but it might be possible to do by having the process doing the capturing not have any windows and just send packet count updates to the UI process. (I haven't looked into that in a while, so I don't know how easy it'd be.)

or at the very least, make it a child of the main window?

Somebody might want to minimize the main Ethereal window and just leave the capture window open. GTK+ 1.2[.x], at least, only supports the notion of a child that's "transient for" a parent, which, as I remember, at least on X11, means that the "transient for" windows are minimized if the main window is minimized.