On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:25:08AM -0600, Andy Howell wrote:
> I've just added support for "tap" and stats_tree in my
> dissector. I would like to have a stats_tree-like display that
> includes my own columns. In particular, I want a summary of the number
> of bytes sent by each message type in my protocol.
>
> I can see three options:
>
> 1) Modify the existing stats_tree code to handle a developer defined
> set of columns.
This is probably the best method to start an attempt at, hpoefully
without requiring changes to the existing dissectors that use the
stats tree API.
> 3) Use the tap mechanism directly and write custom gui code.
Always a good option, but it's not very quick. Code resuse in #1 would
be ideal I think.
Steve