On Apr 14, 2017, at 2:13 PM, Guy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Simon Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The timeline needs to know whether every packet includes timing information. >> If not, the timeline should be hidden. This is only determined after all the >> packets have been through a first dissection pass. > > Then there needs to be a mechanism by which the timeline GUI code can inquire > whether every packet includes timing information. > > The change to allow dissectors to share per-capture data (not "private" data, > "private" means you *don't* share it, as per Michael Mann's comment) would be > a mechanism to do that.
Or, alternatively, we could, for example, add a "read completed" callback for tap listeners, called when a capture read or re-read is complete, and passed a tap-dependent argument, giving "global" information about the captured data. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
