On Mar 31, 2009, at 11:56 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Sorry to bother again, but i did have another question. If i use  
> proto_tree_add_text( ); for all my other branches, but still want to  
> be able to filter them, is there a way i can make a variable like  
> hf_icom_message, and set it to a value in dissect_icom() to be able  
> to filter it? For example, make:
>
> { &hf_icom_message,
>       {"Message", "icom.message",
>       FT_UINT16, BASE_DEC,
>       NULL, 0x0,
>       NULL, HFILL }
> }
>
> and have somewhere hf_icom_message = 6; in dissect_icom()

No, you can't do that.  hf_icom_message is, as per my earlier mail,  
*NOT* the value of the field - it's just an index for that field in  
Wireshark's table of all fields.

> and not use it for outputting anything, but just so i would be able  
> to filter in wireshark with something like icom.message==6?

You *could* add a hidden field, but that's not a good UI, in general -  
if a field doesn't appear in the protocol detail pane, you can't, for  
example, use a context menu on an instance of that field in the  
protocol detail pane to construct a filter to match that value of that  
field.

If you want to filter on a field, the answer is simple - *DON'T* use  
proto_tree_add_text() for it!
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