> > On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:19 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Is there any way to send some information to a plugin dissector from the >> wireshark GUI interface? > > What sort of information? >
Typically a filename + Directory where the the plugin dissector would write some statistic information. >> For instance using a wireshark menu to set some variable that will be >> accessible from the plugin. > > As Anders suggested, you *can* give it global information through a > preference setting. > > We should probably also add a notion of "conversations" available to > dissectors at multiple layers (a notion more general than the current > address-and-port-endpoint-pair notion, that can include multiple address > layers, "circuits" for protocols that have a virtual circuit ID of some > sort, and conversations at layers above the transport layer), and > per-"conversation" settings as well, with Wireshark offering a GUI to let > you select a conversation and set one or more of a set of > dissector-specified parameters. > >> Or maybe it is possible to add a menu from the plugin? > > A menu item to do what? > I imagine a menu that would open a popup asking to enter the filename + directory. ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
