Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eliminate annoying color filter dialog

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:19:12 -0500
Chris Maynard wrote:
I regularly switch between a custom build of Wireshark for analyzing my
company's protocols and the trunk when doing general Wireshark
development/testing.  Unfortunately, I have lots of custom color filters in
place that are invalid for the trunk for obvious reasons.  But every time I
switch to the trunk, for every custom color filter I have, I get an annoying
dialog telling me, "Could not compile color filter "blah" from saved filters." I've made a change in my local sandbox to avoid this, but would anyone have any
grumblings if I permanently eliminate that dialog?  Here's all I do to get rid
of it:

I don't mind.

What about spewing a warning to stdout like we do when we find a preference we don't know/understand? (Just so there's _some_ log of the "failure".)