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Hal Lander wrote:
> I did not realise there was a preference file.
>
> Now looking at http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html I can
> see there should be a global and a personal preference file.
> The manual does not seem to give the actual names for these files, and I
> don't have a 'preferences' directory.
>
> Do you know what the filenames and directory path should be?
>
> Thanks again
> Hal
>
>
>> From: skydiver <skydiver@xxxxxxxxx>
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>> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How do I initialise a boolean preference
>> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:39:49 +0100 (CET)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Question: is our preference already in the preferences file?
>> Then your default gets overwritten by this stored value. The default is
>> default only when the preference is newly introduced.
>>
>> Thanx,
>> Jaap
>>
>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Hal Lander wrote:
>>
>> > I start Wireshark (don't open a file or anything).
>> > My dissector's proto_reg_handoff routine is called.
>> > In the code that runs only once I initialise a variable
>> > static gboolean prefTick
>> > to TRUE, and register the preference.
>> > Before returning the variable is printed out and it is TRUE.
>> >
>> > My dissector's proto_reg_handoff routine is called a second time (I
>> have not
>> > done anything in the Wireshark window yet).
>> > Before returning the variable prefTick is printed out and it is FALSE.
>> >
>> > In Wireshark I edit the preferences for my protocol, I can see my
>> tick box
>> > and it is unticked.
>> > I tick the box and apply it.
>> > My dissector's proto_reg_handoff routine is called
>> > Before returning the variable prefTick is printed out and it is TRUE.
>> >
>> > My question are;
>> > 1. Why is my proto_reg_handoff routine being called twice initially?
>> > 2. Why does the second call set my preference to FALSE?
>> > 3. How do I get the tick box to default to TRUE initially (which is
>> what i
>> > was trying to do) ?
>> >
>> > It looks as though the code is working apart from not having the right
>> > initial value.
>> >
>> > TIA
>> > Hal
>> >
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