Bill Meier wrote: > First: The ability to view the user's manual and the man pages and etc in a > browser is really neat; nice work ! > Thanks :-)
BTW: From 0.99.5 you'll be able to press a help button on various dialogs showing the corresponding section of the User's Guide - might be even more helpful ;-) > I'm using Firefox on Windows XP with Wireshark SVN 20522 built with MSVC 6. > > A few minor notes based upon some quick tests: > > 1. When I select > > Help ! Manual Pages ! Wireshark I get a "Copy" pop-up box saying "Select > the place where you want to copy wireshark.html". > > If I hit cancel the wireshark man page displays in Firefox. > If I hit 'copy' the file is copied but does not get displayed in Firefox. > > > So: what's the 'copy' popup about ?? > Something about my configuration ? or what ? > My machine (XP/Firefox) simply shows the requested manpage in HTML format. Sounds like your firefox configuration is strange. I guess that has something to do with the local files (file:// prefix) - but i don't have a clue about the real cause. > 2. The Help ! Contents and the Help ! User' Guide both display the User's > Guide. > > Is that as expected ? If so, might it be better to only have one choice > which displays the User's Guide ? > Yes, that left over from previous implementation. I've removed the duplicate User's Guide item. > 3. One time while trying out the Help ! ... functions I somehow managed to > wedge Wireshark; It wasn't using any CPU but would not respond to any mouse > clicks. When I used the task manager to kill Wireshark, the message I got was > 'program not responding.... do you want to stop ... ?". > > I was unable to duplicate this with a few quick tries. I'll see if I can > duplicate the problem tomorrow evening and try to see what is going on Hmmh, without more input it will be hard to track this down. I never experienced something like this myself. Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
