Hi Pascal,
That won't work in this case. It's actually a plugin rather than a true
dissector - I didn't describe it well. It uses Qt code so it definitely will
only work with Wireshark 2.x.x. Objections aside, how can it be detected?
Thanks and regards...Paul
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-------- Original message --------
From: Pascal Quantin <[email protected]>
Date: 03/07/2017 17:57 (GMT+00:00)
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Checking for Qt in a dissector
Hi Paul,
Le 3 juil. 2017 18:47, "Paul Offord"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
I have a dissector that needs to confirm that it is running in a Qt environment
i.e. Wireshark 2.x.x and not tshark. What is a good way to check for this?
Sorry to say that but IMHO you should not / must not have such a need. Any
dissector that would behave differently depending on the application used
(command line, GTK UI, Qt UI) has a design flaw.
Dissectors should behave the same way whatever the user frontend, and taps are
here to present the data to the user differently depending on the interface
used.
I sincerely hope we do not expose the info you are requesting to
libwireshark....
Regards,
Pascal.
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