Andreas Schuler wrote:
> hi,
> 
> is my question too dumb, my english too bad or is there no one that can
> help me ?
> 
> How can i display a user defined text in a custom column ?
> 
> greets
> Andreas
> 
> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:27:28PM +0200, Andreas Schuler wrote:
>>>
>>>> i'm writing a dissector and want to use custom columns for displaying
>>>> some dynamic generated informations, but when i use
>>>> proto_tree_add_none_format() the column remains empty although in the
>>>> details the right values will be displayed. other proto_tree_add_...
>>>> works but only show the value that comes direct from packet-data, no
>>>> additional text etc.
>>> Are you sure that FT_NONE is the appropriate field type to be using for
>>> that?  To quote README.developer, "No field type.  Used for fields that
>>> aren't given a value, and that can only be tested for presence or
>>> absence..." - so there wouldn't be anything to be displayed in the
>>> custom column.  What are the dynamic values you are displaying?
>>
>> No, i'm not sure.
>> I want to show a piece of the packet-header in human readable,sortable
>> format.
>>
>> i.e.:
>> Value   Column-Text
>> 0    "[Ct]"
>> 1    "[Ct]"
>> 2    "[Nt]"
>> 3    "[Nt]"
>> 4    "[Qt]"
>> 5    "[Escape]"
>> 6    "[Mt]"
>> 7    "[Mt]"
>>
>> Thats shouldn't be difficult, but the value 7 is dependant on the packet
>> type either "[Mt]" or "[Pt]". So i can't use the normal
>> proto_tree_add_item and value_string contruct.
>>
>> The background is, i want to clean some things in the DECT dissector
>> (packet_dect.c). There are many things to do, one of them is that all
>> infos from the packet only are written to COL_INFO since
>> Revision 28022
>> (http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-dect.c?r1=27904&r2=28022).
>> Now i want to write this infos to custom columns, not to any random chosen
>> COL_xxx fields like before.
>>
>> The upper described example is the first thing that be showed in the
>> COL_INFO column and depends on
>> dect.AField.head.TA and dect.type (or COL_PROTOCOL == DECT RFP/DECT PP).

I think an FT_STRING(Z) field should work for this purpose: just build 
and add the string you want and add it to the protocol tree.
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