["Hal Lander" <hal_lander@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This makes things clearer. I was looking in the directories where I have 
been building/running Wireshark. Instead Windows, in my documents directory, 
has a hidden directory called 'Appllication Data'. That is why I could not 
find things.

The sub directory
\Application Data\Wireshark
contains three files cfilters, preferences and recent.

Preferences does contain the boolean I was registering and I can see it 
changing as I edit the preference in Wireshark.

Thanks Gerald

Hal


> From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Developer support list for Wireshark 
> <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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 13:18:57 -0800
>
> You might try checking Help->About Wireshark->Folders.  Specific
> locations vary by platform and compile-time options.
>
> 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>
> >> Reply-To: Developer support list for Wireshark
> >> <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> 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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