Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1275] Update time display in background

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:28:19 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1275


guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         OS/Version|Windows XP                  |All
           Platform|PC                          |All
            Summary|Set time reference in       |Update time display in
                   |background                  |background




------- Comment #1 from guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx  2006-12-20 10:28 GMT -------
...or otherwise made faster.

If the packet summary pane's contents were generated "on the fly" rather than
coming from a huge collection of strings generated by scanning through all the
packets, it might be possible to set the time reference (or change the time
display format, or make a number of other changes) in O(n) time, where n is the
number of packets currently being displayed.

That'd be a significant programming effort - but updating the display in the
background might be a significant effort as well, and doing so safely (i.e.,
done in a fashion that means that UI actions can be done safely while the
update is in progress) might be as difficult as generating the summary pane's
contents on the fly.

If it's possible to update the display in the background when setting the time
reference without too much pain, it'd probably be possible to update the time
display format in the background as well.


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