On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Brian Vandenberg wrote:
The window that I mentioned, showing progress of processed packet
data, that window appears twice. Is this a redundancy that could be
eliminated?
In some cases, probably. See below.
:- First, clicking the initial packet caused the 'Processing packet
data' window to appear twice.
:- Opening my dissector's tree caused the same thing to happen
:- Clicking line items in my tree, or opening subtrees would cause the
'processing' window to appear twice, then a very long delay I normally
don't wait for (waited 10 min once before giving up).
Whenever you select an item in the packet detail pane, the text widget
with the hex/ASCII dump has to highlight the data corresponding to
it. Unfortunately, that's currently done by *reconstructing the
entire dump pane*, which is *another* thing that would probably be
done better by a "virtual" widget of the type I describe - such a
widget would highlight text when it draws it, so the time to redraw
would be proportional to the amount of text *displayed*, not the total
amount of text in the widget.
There are probably also extra calls to construct the dump pane being
made.