On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ulf Lamping wrote: > Olivier Biot wrote: > > >Hi list, > > > >I'd like to implement packet deletion. for many things deeting packets > >is *very* similar to marking and unmarking packets. I however have > >some questions, so I list some statements below: > > > >1. If I delete a marked packet, I should unmark it too. > >2. All (context) menu items on a deleted packet must be disabled, > >except for undeletion. > >3. If a deleted packet is selected, its dissection tree must not be > >shown. > >4. Deleting packets in a capture may change the way a capture is > >dissected. For example, if I delete a WSP redirect packet, then the > >redirection conversation will not be built if the packets are > >processed again. > >5. Because of 4. we may want to have a "redissect" button be active > >whenever we suspect something will change dissection. > >6. Deleted packets "never" match a display filter. > > > >Comments are welcome! > > > > > > > What do you mean with packet deletion?
I think he means to mark them as deleted. > Do you want to simply hide the packets, or really remove them from the > capture file? I don't think it will be easy to delete them from the capture file. We will have to write the capture file out again to do this. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com _______________________________________________ Ethereal-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
