Ethereal development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 16.02.04 10:46:28: > > |From: Ronnie Sahlberg > | > |List, > | > |A friend recently suggested to me an enhancement he > |thought would be useful in Ethereal: > | > |When we right click on an entry in the dissect pane, > |add another item to thepopup-menu called something > |like "Protocol Information" or something. > |This would then (for those protocols where it has > |been defined) a small dialog with a brief description > |of the protocol and possibly a pointer to where more > |information/the specification can be found. > > Join the Club :) I was thinking about the very same thing. First I thought > about doing this within the proto_register_protocol() framework, but maybe > we could do it in a simpler manner by adding a protocols subdirectory in the > doc directory and write a small text file per protocol. If the file is > present, then we're able to present a brief description of this protocol. > > How we then link the content of those files to Ethereal, is another > discussion. We could generate stuff at compile time, or read in those > descriptions at runtime etc. > > Fire your comments! >
In my experience it's better to have one place of all available information about a specific thing. So I tend to put this into the proto-xy.c file, rather than having a new text file at a completely different place. This will make it more obvious to the developer to put some reasonable text into it. Regards, ULFL ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra-Konto: 2,50 %* Zinsen p. a. ab dem ersten Euro! Nur hier mit 25 Euro-Tankgutschein & ExtraPr�mie! https://extrakonto.web.de/?mc=021110 _______________________________________________ Ethereal-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
