Personally, I really like the way autoscroll works now. But Ulf makes a good suggestion in that it may also be nice to stop the autoscroll if you click on a packet of interest. Then resume the same way as now.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:17 PM To: Developer support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark 0.99.7pre2 is now available Ulf Lamping wrote: > Jim Young schrieb: >> I think autoscroll behavior was changed (augmented?). >> >> My observation is that auto-scrolling now stops if you scroll UP in the >> packet summary pane. You can restore auto-scrolling by simply scrolling >> to the bottom-most (i.e. most recent) item of the summary pane. >> >> You can also click on the "Go to first packet" and "Go to the last packet" >> toolbar buttons to accomplish same. >> > Ah, at least that explains what happens. This was added by one of the guys here at CACE, and checked in in r22277. It's intended to let you go back and look at any interesting traffic that might be flying past during a live capture by simply grabbing the scroll bar. Modern terminal programs have this behavior, e.g. when PuTTY's "Reset scrollback on display activity" option is disabled. > So two questions: > > - should the autoscroll mode be disabled (e.g. displayed by the toolbar > icon) when scrolling is disabled? Having both a "visible" criteria > (autoscroll icon) and an "invisible" (position of scrollbar) sounds not > very intuitive to me - but I may be wrong here How is the scrollbar position "invisible"? If you're at the bottom, then autoscroll is enabled. If you're not, then autoscroll is disabled. At any rate, the toolbar icon should reflect the autoscroll state. We'll work on a fix. > - should "go to last packet" turn the autoscroll mode back on automatically? If we want to be consistent with PuTTY, Terminal.app, gnome-terminal, and other applications then the answer is "yes." _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev ----------------------------------------- This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, retention, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Also, email is susceptible to data corruption, interception, tampering, unauthorized amendment and viruses. We only send and receive emails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
