On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 9:39 AM Pascal Quantin <pas...@wireshark.org> wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > Le mar. 18 oct. 2022 à 18:30, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsha...@gmail.com> a > écrit : >> >> Hi folks, >> >> How do I squeeze more than 240 chars into a string field? > > You can't currently. As seen in epan/proto.h, you have the ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH > define set to 240 and that exists since ages. > >> >> I am trying to fix an issue with the beamforming matrices for 802.11ax >> and 802.11be and maybe 802.11ac. > > I guess you refer to https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18504
Yes. >> >> When I try to assemble all of a single SCIDX, I get this: >> ---------------------------- >> S [truncated]: SCIDX: -122, phi11:57, phi21:34, phi31:59, phi41:8, >> phi51:52, phi61:18, phi71:14, psi21:10, psi31:8, psi41:1, psi51:5, >> psi61:5, psi71:3, psi81:4, phi22:33, phi32:22, phi42:22, phi52:10, >> phi62:41, phi72:59, psi32:8, psi42:3, >> ------------------------------ >> >> Why is there an arbitrary limit? Is it because I am working with 3.4.8? > > No, it has been like this for 23 years according to Git blame. > Maybe it's time to display this matrix differently (with several lines?) > instead of appending all those infos in a single line? I tried that but the user finds it hard to work with. I have found a way to make the user happy, but of the spec changes to increase the number of angles needed we will run into the same problem. -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)(传说杜康是酒的发明者) ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
