You might be surprised but someone has thought about the need
reporting errors by dissectors before...

The propper way reporting an error you want to call report_failure()
from "epan/report_err.h". In wireshark (GUI) report_failure() will pop
a window with the error message while in tshark it will printout the
error . No need to render tshark unusable.

report_failure("An error happened because: %s", err_str);



On 31-Mar-2008 12:55:00 ZE5B, Praveen Kumar Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>  Yeah! I am 100 % sure that I am going to use WIreshark in GUI mode ( and
> not the Tshark).
>
>  I am using proto_reg_handoff_xxx() function as call-back for the
> preferences.
>  e.g.
>  xxx_module = prefs_register_protocol(proto_xxx, proto_reg_handoff_xxx);
>
>  & registering a preference of uint type with xxx_module (say for example,
> port number).
>
>  In the function proto_reg_handoff_xxx(), i would like to have some check on
> the user entered uint value i.e. the port number,
>  and depending on its value I would like to popup an error message in GUI.
>
>  hope that the situation is clear!
>
>  thanks
>
>  Praveen
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