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> On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:19 AM, fab12@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> Is there any way to send some information to a plugin dissector from the
>> wireshark GUI interface?
>
> What sort of information?
>
Typically a filename + Directory where the the plugin dissector would
write some statistic information.
>> For instance using a wireshark menu to set some variable that will be
>> accessible from the plugin.
>
> As Anders suggested, you *can* give it global information through a
> preference setting.
>
> We should probably also add a notion of "conversations" available to
> dissectors at multiple layers (a notion more general than the current
> address-and-port-endpoint-pair notion, that can include multiple address
> layers, "circuits" for protocols that have a virtual circuit ID of some
> sort, and conversations at layers above the transport layer), and
> per-"conversation" settings as well, with Wireshark offering a GUI to let
> you select a conversation and set one or more of a set of
> dissector-specified parameters.
>
>> Or maybe it is possible to add a menu from the plugin?
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> A menu item to do what?
>
I imagine a menu that would open a popup asking to enter the filename +
directory.