On Jun 4, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Gerald Combs <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've made a lot of progress but are still lacking many features including
> the Wireless Toolbar, a few Statistics dialogs,
More than just a few, actually. "Service Response Time" isn't a dialog, it's a
menu under which a lot of other menu items for statistics dialogs exists.
What we should ultimately have is a mechanism by which a dissector can provide
statistics tables, with common UI code presenting the tables - that way, the
XYZZYP Service Response Time table can be shown in printed text form by TShark
and GUI form by Qt Wireshark (and GTK+ Wireshark if we don't just delete the
GTK+ code) and so on.
I've worked on that every so often; that's a lot of the reason for the stuff
I've added to epan/stat_tap_ui.h, and I'd like to get to the point where a tap
can say "OK, here's the -z flag name, and here's where my menu item goes and
what it's name is, and here are the parameters you can specify", and have the
-z option be parsed by common code and have the parameters part of the dialog
window be laid out and handled by common code".
After that, there should be a way in which a tap can say "OK, my presentation
is a set of tables ("set" because, for example, the SMB SRT statistics has
three tables, with request types and transaction types as keys), with these
names, and these sets of columns, with these column names and types". The
stats tree stuff is a bit more specialized than that, as it has a fixed set of
columns. You could perhaps use a general "set of tables" mechanism, if the
table rows can be expanded, to implement both the stats tree stuff and the SRT
tables and perhaps other statistics taps. "stats tree" statistics can already
be done without writing any GUI code; this would let a bunch of other
statistics be written that way as well.
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