On Aug 3, 2019, at 7:27 PM, Jason Cohen <kryojenik2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 9:15 PM Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Aug 3, 2019, at 4:39 PM, Jason Cohen <kryojenik2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a lengths of bytes that I need to read from the tvb and render as a hex string that are / may be longer than MAX_BYTE_STR_LEN which is defined as 48. I do not need the actual bytes from the tvb after I render it as a hexstring.
>>
>> Render where?
>
> In the packet detail.
OK, so we could increase MAX_BYTE_STR_LEN to, say, 256, but:
1) that wouldn't handle an *arbitrary* length - it'll *still* get cut off at 240 bytes;
2) it'd be a lot of hex digits to stare at, possibly requiring horizontal scrolling.
How big can this field get?