Hi, I've been toying with the idea of adding a precompile option button to the capture dialog. When pressing that a popup would show you the BPF code (like tcpdump -d) and a result of processing the capture filter.
Maybe you can file an enhancement bug? Thanks, Jaap Send from my iPhone On 3 feb 2010, at 12:00, Robert Kochem <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wireshark developers, > > I am currently fighting again with the capture filter syntax. I want > to > build a relatively complex filter which isn't that simple. > > My major problem while developing the capture filter is that there > is the > missing possibility to check the syntax of a filter. The only > possibility > is to try starting a new capture session. > > I don't expect an real time checking while typing with highlighting > but a > simple button for checking the syntax would be really great and would > improve the option dialog significantly. > > Additionally the "Invalid capture filter" error dialog does not give > any > clue what part of the filter string caused the error. A little bit > more > verboseness would be helpful here, too. > > Is there any chance to get those two changes implemented? > > Robert > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
