> > Here is a patch that introduces a new global function to gtk_stat_util.h/.c > > (right place?) > > to compare two string values representing floats (works like strcmp). > > However the function uses possibly heavy string processing and needs > > refinement for cases of scientific notation. > > Even "atof()" involves string processing. > > Would it be possible to allocate, for all rows in RTP analysis's CList, > a data structure containing the numerical values for that row (and to > free all those data structures when the CList is destroyed)? > > If so, then you could set the row data for the row to be a pointer to > the corresponding data structure, and have the sort function get that > data for the row (the "data" field of the GtkCListRow structure) and > sort based on the structure members - no string process is involved at > all with that.
Of course that would be possible. But the problem occurs in at least 4 places throughout Ethereal code, including the main packet list (!), various statistics-tables, ... They would all have to be changed. Lars Ruoff. _______________________________________________ Ethereal-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
